Dhoni
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dhoni is a noun meaning A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.
Meaning
A handcrafted sailboat with a motor or lateen sails, resembling a dhow, that is used in the Maldives.
Example Sentences
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.
Guests at the new Anantara Resort Maldives, opened in September on a five-acre island in the South Male Atoll, can shove off at sunset to fish from an indigenous dhoni sailboat, trailing local tackle — that is, a baited hook on a fishing line.
Word Forms
- dhonis
- dhoney
- dhony
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dhony, doni, doney, dhoney, done, dhow.
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