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cotia

cotia noun: a fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.

Noun

cotia (plural cotias)

  1. (India, historical) A fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.

Forms of cotia

pluralcotias

Origin of cotia

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

Questions about cotia

What does cotia mean?
Cotia means a fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.
What part of speech is cotia?
Cotia is a noun.
What is the plural of cotia?
The plural of cotia is cotias.

Words near cotia in the dictionary

  1. cothurnopore
  2. cothurnopores
  3. cothurns
  4. cothurnus
  5. cothymia
  6. cotia
  7. cotias
  8. coticular
  9. coticule
  10. coticules
  11. cotidal

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