cafila

See also: càfila and cáfila

English

Etymology

From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila).

Noun

cafila (plural cafilas)

1. A caravan of travellers or supplies.
   • 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 41:

     [W]e heard sounds at a distance, which we conjectured to proceed from the bells of a Cafila, passing over the rocks.

   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 100:

     I heard someone who seemed to know say that Vodalus was far to the north, hiding among the frost-pinched forests and raiding kafilas.

Alternative forms

• cafilah, cafileh, kafila, kafilah, kafileh

Anagrams

• facial