Meanings
nounmihaffah (plural mihaffahs)
plural mihaffahs
- alternativeAlternative form of mihaffa.
For their conveyance two litters (mihaffah) are hung the back of an elephant, one litter on each side. On each litter one leopard sits, look out for a prey.
1873, Heinrich Blochmann translating Abul Fazl 'Allami as The Ain i Akbari, Vol. I, p. 2881 more example
... the vizir al-Faḑi ibn al-Rabiʾ (d. 208/824) ordered the singer-composer Fulayḥ ibn abī al-ʿAwrāʾ (d. ?) to be taken from his sick bed and brought to his majlis on a miḥaffah (stretcher).
2004, George Sawa, Music Performance Practice in the Early ʿAbbāsid Era 132-320 AH / 750-932 AD, page 114
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