From Arabic ???????? ( q?fila ) .

cafila ( plural cafilas )

1. A caravan of travellers or supplies .
   • 1816 , William Beckford , Vathek , Oxford, published 2013 , page 41 :

     [W]e heard sounds at a distance, which we conjectured to proceed from the bells of a Cafila , passing over the rocks.

   • 1980 , Gene Wolfe , chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer ( The Book of the New Sun ; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster , →ISBN , page 100 :

     I heard someone who seemed to know say that Vodalus was far to the north, hiding among the frost-pinched forests and raiding kafilas .

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