cotia

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English

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Etymology

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From Hindi [Term?] or Arabic كُوْتِيّة (kūtiyya), possibly linked to medieval Arabic قِطْعَة (qiṭʕa, a kind of galley),[1][2] or from an Indian language.[3]

Noun

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cotia (plural cotias)

  1. (India, historical) A fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.

References

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  1. ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2008) Classic Ships of Islam, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352–354
  2. ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2010) In the Wake of the Dhow, second edition, Reading: Ithaca Press, →ISBN, pages 56–57
  3. ^ Hideaki Suzuki (2017) Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 30

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