palanquin

English

WOTD - 27 March 2006    

Etymology

From Portuguese palanquim, ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (paly-aṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”).

Alternative forms

• palankeen

Pronunciation

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Noun

palanquin (plural palanquins)

1. A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia.

Translations

a covered type of litter

Arabic: حمالة (ar) (ḥammāla) f., محفة (ar) (miḥáffa) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 轎子 (cmn), 轿子 (cmn) (jiàozi), 轎 (cmn), 轿 (cmn) (jiào), 輿 (zh), 舆 (zh) (yú) Dutch: palankijn (nl) Finnish: palankiini (fi) French: palanquin (fr) German: Sänfte (de) f. Hindi: पालकी (hi) (pālkī) f. Japanese: 駕篭 (ja) (かご, kago), 輿 (ja) (こし, koshi)

Korean: 가마 (ko) (gama) Persian: پالکی (fa) (pâlki) Portuguese: palanquim (pt) m. Russian: паланкин (ru) (palankín) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: носиљка (sh) f. Roman: nosiljka (sh) f. Spanish: palanquín (es) m. Tamil: பல்லாக்கு (ta) (pallākku) Urdu: پالکی (ur) (pālkī) f. Vietnamese: kiệu (vi) (轎 (vi)), cáng (vi)

See also

• sedan chair

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French

Noun

palanquin m. (plural palanquins)

1. palanquin