cotia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.

Word forms

cotia cotias

Etymology

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

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