cotia
See also: Cotia
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]cotia (plural cotias)
- (India, historical) A fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.
References
[edit]- ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2008) Classic Ships of Islam, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352–354
- ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2010) In the Wake of the Dhow, second edition, Reading: Ithaca Press, →ISBN, pages 56–57
- ^ Hideaki Suzuki (2017) Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 30
Further reading
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cotia”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 265.