mihaffah

English

Noun

mihaffah (plural mihaffahs)

1. Alternative form of mihaffa.
   • 1873, Heinrich Blochmann translating Abul Fazl 'Allami as The Ain i Akbari, Vol. I, p. 288:

     For their conveyance two litters (mihaffah) are hung the back of an elephant, one litter on each side. On each litter one leopard sits, look out for a prey.

   • 2004, George Sawa, Music Performance Practice in the Early ʿAbbāsid Era 132-320 AH / 750-932 AD, page 114:

     ... the vizir al-Faḑi ibn al-Rabiʾ (d. 208/824) ordered the singer-composer Fulayḥ ibn abī al-ʿAwrāʾ (d. ?) to be taken from his sick bed and brought to his majlis on a miḥaffah (stretcher).