palanquin

See also: palanquín

English

WOTD – 27 March 2006

Alternative forms

• palankeen

Etymology

From Portuguese palanquim, from Odia ପାଲଙ୍କି (pālaṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”), from परि (pari, “around, about”) + अङ्कस् (aṅkas, “bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˌpæləŋˈkiːn/

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

• Albanian: palankin m
• Arabic: حَمَّالَة f (ḥammāla), مِحَفَّة f (miḥaffa)
• Armenian: դեսպակ (hy) (despak), ժանվար (hy) (žanvar), գահավորակ (hy) (gahavorak), գահույք (hy) (gahuykʻ)
• Belarusian: паланкі́н m (palankín)
• Bengali: পালকি (paloki)
• Burmese: သန်လျင်း (my) (sanlyang:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轎子／轿子 (zh) (jiàozi), 轿子 (zh) (jiàozi), 轎／轿 (zh) (jiào), 轿 (zh) (jiào), 輿／舆 (zh) (yú), 舆 (zh) (yú)

• Dutch: palankijn
• Egyptian: (qnjw)
• Esperanto: palankeno
• Finnish: palankiini (fi)
• French: palanquin (fr)
• German: Sänfte (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: φορεῖον n (phoreîon)

• Hindi: पालकी (hi) f (pālkī)
• Italian: portantina f, palanchino (it) m
• Japanese: 駕籠 (かご, kago), 輿 (ja) (こし, koshi)
• Korean: 가마 (ko) (gama)
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• Lao: ຍານະ (nyā na), ຕະຫລ່ຽງ (ta līang), ວໍ (wǭ), ສະຫລ່ຽງ (sa līang), ສິວິກາ (si wi kā), ຄານຫາມ (khān hām)
• Latin: feretrum n, lectīca f
• Malayalam: പല്ലക്ക് (ml) (pallakkŭ)
• Mon: ဝဝ် (wò)
• Persian: پالکی (fa) (pâlki)
• Portuguese: palanquim (pt) m
• Romanian: palanchin (ro) n
• Russian: паланки́н (ru) m (palankín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: носиљка f

  Roman: nosiljka (sh) f

• Spanish: palanquín m
• Swedish: palankin c
• Tamil: பல்லாக்கு (ta) (pallākku)
• Telugu: అందలము (te) (andalamu), పల్లకి (te) (pallaki)
• Thai: คานหาม (kaan-hǎam), วอ (th) (wɔɔ), เกี้ยว (th) (gîao), แคร่หาม
• Ukrainian: паланкі́н m (palankín)
• Urdu: پالکی f (pālkī)
• Vietnamese: kiệu (vi) (轎 (vi)), cáng (vi)

See also

• sedan chair

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French

Etymology

From Hindi and Pali and Odia ପାଲଙ୍କି (pālaṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”), from परि (pari, “around, about”) + अङ्कस् (aṅkas, “bend, curve”).

Noun

palanquin m (plural palanquins)

1. palanquin

Further reading

• “palanquin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.