Mihaffa

Quick meaning: Mihaffa is a noun meaning (Middle East, Central Asia and India, chiefly historical) Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers.

Meaning

(Middle East, Central Asia and India, chiefly historical) Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers.

More Meanings

1. (India, chiefly historical) Various forms of covered human-borne litters and sedan chairs, chiefly for female passengers.

Example Sentences

The Central Asian mihaffa (a sort of wooden turret suspended from two poles between two camels used at the time of travelling) was also common in India.

The Levirate marriage... expenses are borne by the bridegroom, and the bride is carried with much parade in a palanquin, enclosed with curtains (Mihaffa).

...ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Abuʾl-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (d. 952/1545–6), a rich ʿālim and a Sufi, wrote poetry. Shaʿrānī reports that he was the first to go on pilgrimage in a litter (miḥaffa).

Royal ladies generally travelled in the imaris—an octagonal seat with canopy and its sides covered with curtains, carried by an elephant on its back or in the mihaffa—a rectangular seat, carried by two camels.

Word Forms

• mihaffas
• mihafa
• mihaffah

Synonyms for mihaffa

Depending on context, synonyms include jampan.

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