batilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Arabic بَتِيل‎ (batīl).

名詞

batil (複数形 batils)

1. A type of traditional sailing vessel used in the Arabian Sea.
   • 1877, Charles Rathbone Low, The History of the Indian Navy‎^[1]:

     The Batil, a vessel with a long fiddle-headed bow and two masts, which may be distinguished from other craft by the inner part of the stern-post being ornamented with devices cut in the wood.

   • 2020 August 20, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire‎^[2], HarperCollins UK, →ISBN, page 157:

     While baghlas and their smaller equivalents, battils, were used for Arab trade between the west coast of India and the Gulf, European-style ships were also increasingly prevalent in this trade.