mohaffah

plural mohaffahs

1. alternativeAlternative form of mihaffa.

   2 more examples

   The thermometer hanging round my neck, was up to 116; and the little remaining water, which was in a leathern bottle, suspended at the corner of the mohaffah, had become so thick, resembling the residuum of an ink-stand, that, parched and thirsty as I felt, I could not relieve my distress, by any attempt to swallow it.

   1805 December, Julius Griffiths, “A Journey across the Desert”, in The Monthly Mirror, page 362

   Mr. H. took his favourite horse with him; and he had a machine, called a mohaffah, fitted up for common use. This machine was composed of two boxes, partly filled with mattresses, on which the traveller might sit; these boxes were slung on each side of a camel. Little posts were fixed in the outside corners, with a canvass covering thrown over them, which shaded the travellers from the extreme heat of the sun.

   1853, Maria Hack, Winter Evenings..., page 12