Ghanjah

A ghanjah at Bombay harbor in 1909
A ghanjah in dry dock showing the trefoil ornament on the prow

A ghanjah or ganja[1] (Arabic: غنجه), also known as kotiya in India, is a large wooden trading dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel.[2]

  1. ^ Thabit A. J. Abdullah, The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra, SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East , 2000, ISBN 978-0-7914-4808-3
  2. ^ Clifford W. Hawkins, The dhow: an illustrated history of the dhow and its world