Donī 1 (feminine) [Sanskrit droṇī, see doṇa] 1. a (wooden) trough, a vat, tub S II 259; A I 253; V 323; Ja I 450; Miln 56. — tela° an oil vat A III 58 (āyasā made of iron and used as a sarcophagus). 2. a trough-shaped canoe (cf. Marāthi ḍon "a long flat-bottomed boat made of unḍi wood,"(Calophyllum inophyllum linn), and Kanarese ḍoni "a canoe hallowed from a log"] Ja IV 163 (= gambhīrā mahānāvā page 164); Pv-a 189. 3. a hollow, dug in the ground Miln 397. 4. the body of a lute, the sounding-board (?)] I 450; Miln 53; Vv-a 281.