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English
Etymology
From Hindi or Arabic كُوْتِيّة (kūtiyya), possibly linked to medieval Arabic قِطْعَة (qiṭʕa, “a kind of galley”),[1][2] or from an Indian language.[3]
Noun
cotia (plural cotias)
- (India, historical) A fast-sailing vessel, with two masts and lateen sails, employed on the Malabar coast.
References
- ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2008) Classic Ships of Islam, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352–354
- ^ Dionisius A. Agius (2010) In the Wake of the Dhow, second edition, Reading: Ithaca Press, →ISBN, pages 56–57
- ^ Hideaki Suzuki (2017) Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 30
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