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doni

doni is the alternative 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 doni

pluraldonis

Questions about doni

What is doni the alternative form of?
Doni is the alternative form of dhoni.

Words near doni in the dictionary

  1. Dongzhou
  2. Donham
  3. Donhams
  4. donharrisite
  5. Donhead St Mary
  6. doni
  7. Donia
  8. Donica
  9. Donicas
  10. donicities
  11. donicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doni (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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