boliah

English

Alternative forms

• bauleah, beauliah, bholiah, bolia, bolio

Etymology

From Bengali [Term?].

Noun

boliah (plural boliahs)

1. (India, obsolete) A kind of light accommodation boat with a cabin, in use on the Bengal rivers.

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “boliah”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].