Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A houseboat having sails and sometimes an engine, used on the Nile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
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- noun A
Nile boat constructed on the model of afloating house , with largesails .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On December 10, the Adamses set out on their chartered boat, the Isis, a modern version of an ancient shallow-water craft known as a dahabeah.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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On December 10, the Adamses set out on their chartered boat, the Isis, a modern version of an ancient shallow-water craft known as a dahabeah.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Gleyre's best-known picture is the painting in the Louvre, somewhat weak in colouring, but showing much feeling, a Nile subject representing a man sitting on the banks of the river and watching the dreams of his youth, represented as beautiful women, fleeing from him on a decorated dahabeah, which is disappearing.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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Gleyre's best-known picture is the painting in the Louvre, somewhat weak in colouring, but showing much feeling, a Nile subject representing a man sitting on the banks of the river and watching the dreams of his youth, represented as beautiful women, fleeing from him on a decorated dahabeah, which is disappearing.
Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884
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It was in the middle of January, after a pleasant journey up the Nile from Lower Egypt, on board a luxuriously fitted up "dahabeah," that I arrived at Korosko, a Nubian village about a thousand miles from the
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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For four weeks the steam-powered dahabeah chuffed along the green river, stopping to let the travelers stroll among sunbaked ruins or make dusty forays to distant temples arid tombs.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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For four weeks the steam-powered dahabeah chuffed along the green river, stopping to let the travelers stroll among sunbaked ruins or make dusty forays to distant temples arid tombs.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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As Gordon and his troops (200 Egyptian soldiers) sailed up the Nile in their _dahabeah_, the boat was often blocked by the tangled water weeds.
The Story of General Gordon Jeanie Lang
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On landing at Alexandria, we were hurried on board a large mast-less canal boat, shaped like a Nile dahabeah.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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Yet, if you have just come from Egypt and three months on a dahabeah, you will not hesitate to call this luxurious mode of passing from Dan to Beersheba "roughing it in Palestine."
bilby commented on the word dahabeah
"A dahabeah, also spelled dahabeeyah, dahabiah, dahabiya, dahabiyah and dhahabiyya (Arabic ذهبىة /ðahabīya/), is a passenger boat used on the River Nile in Egypt. The term is normally used to describe a shallow-bottomed, barge-like vessel with two or more sails. The vessels have been around in one form or another for thousands of years, with similar craft being depicted on the walls of the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. Indeed, the name derives from the Arabic word for "gold", owing to similar, gilded state barges used by the Muslim rulers of Egypt in the Middle Ages."
- Wikipedia.
September 24, 2011