A small, flat-bottomed boat used for fishing or transportation, particularly in South Asian countries like India.
From Hindi 'dori,' possibly derived from Sanskrit. The word entered English through British colonial contact with India and remains a term specific to South Asian watercraft.
Dori reminds us how colonialism and trade left languages full of 'borrowed' words—when British people saw these boats, they just adopted the local name rather than inventing a new English word!
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