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dhony

dhony is the archaic form 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

Forms of dhony

pluraldhonies

Questions about dhony

What is dhony the archaic form of?
Dhony is the archaic form of dhoni.

Words near dhony in the dictionary

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

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