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Dhow

Dhow (/daʊ/; Arabic: داو, romanized: dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels primarily used to carry heavy items, such as fruit, fresh water, or other heavy…

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related to Further reading · 59
Dhow → Anthony Jack, Arab, Arabian Seas, Assen, Bibcode, Bowen, Cargoes, Chryssee Perry, Classification, Clifford, Comp, Djibouti's, Elspeth Huxley, Esmond Bradley, Essay, Found, Genootschap Nederland-Iran, Gorcum, Greenwich, Handbook
related to Types · 46
Dhow → All, Arabic, Baghlah, Bahrain, Baqarah, Barijah, Battil, Bay, Beden, Bengal, Boom, Egypt, Formerly, Ghanjah, Greek, Indian, Indian Ocean, Iraq, It, Jahazi
related to External links · 35
Dhow → Al, Arab Gulf, Archaeology, Christopher, Dau, DE, Dhows, Die, German, History, Indian Ocean World, ISBN, January, JP, Kuwait, Lloyd, Maritime, Modell, Mondfeld, November
related to history · 24
Dhow → AD, Africa, Another, Babylon, BC, Beden, China, Chinese, Chinese Emperor Yong Le's, Egypt, Far East, However, India, It, Ming Dynasty, Most, Nights, Portuguese, Ships, Somali
related to Etymology · 21
Dhow → Arabian, Arabic, Arabs, At, Dutch, East Africa, European, Europeans, However, Indian Ocean, Indians, Noah's, On, Persian, Previously, Qur'an, Recently, Since, Swahili, The
related to Gallery · 20
Dhow → Aden, Arab, Baghlah, Dar, Indian, Indian OceanA, Inhambane, Kuwait, Kuwait City, Maritime Museum, MozambiqueA, OmanDhow, QatarA, Salaam, SambukDhow, Shatt, Sur, TanzaniaDhow, Yemen, Zanzibar1937
related to Since the 20th century · 9
Dhow → Al Hudaydah, British, Captain Alan Villiers, In, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, They, Those, Yemen
related to Museums · 6
Dhow → Guinness World Record, Kuwait, Kuwait City, Salmiya, The Al-Hashemi-II, The Kuwaiti Maritime Museum
related to Navigation · 2
Dhow → For, Pole Star

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dhows used indian persian ocean word arabic trade gulf east ship maritime africa small sailing sails sea smaller vessels history

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