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jalia

jalia is the alternative form of gallivat.

Meaning of gallivat

Noun

gallivat (plural gallivats)

  1. A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
    • [They] found them next Morning out of Sight, excepting a Ketch and some few Gallivats, (small sort of Vessels something like the Feluccas of the Mediterranean, and hoists, like them, triangular Sails.)1724, Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates, page 126

Forms of jalia

pluraljalias

Questions about jalia

What is jalia the alternative form of?
Jalia is the alternative form of gallivat.

Words near jalia in the dictionary

  1. jalfrazi
  2. jalfrezi
  3. jalfrezis
  4. Jalgaon
  5. jali
  6. jalia
  7. jalias
  8. Jalil
  9. Jalili syndrome
  10. Jalils
  11. jalis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jalia (page history and authors); gallivat (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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