boliah

English

Alternative forms

bauleah, beauliah, bholiah, bolia

Etymology

Bengali [Term?]

Noun

boliah (plural boliahs)

(India, obsolete) A kind of light accommodation boat with a cabin, in use on the Bengal rivers.

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “boliah”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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