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dhonis

dhonis is the plural of dhoni.

Meaning of dhoni

Noun

dhoni (plural dhonis)

  1. A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.
    • The witchery of the dawn turned the grey river-reaches to purple, gold, and opal; and it was as though the lumbering dhoni crept across the splendors of a new heaven.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 141

Questions about dhonis

What is dhonis the plural of?
Dhonis is the plural of dhoni.

Words near dhonis in the dictionary

  1. Dhonfan
  2. Dhonfushi
  3. Dhonhera
  4. dhoni
  5. dhonies
  6. dhonis
  7. Dhonvelihuraa
  8. dhony
  9. dhoob
  10. Dhoogan'dufinolhu
  11. dhooley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dhonis (page history and authors); dhoni (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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