Jampan

//ˈdʒæmˌpæn// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters. India, historical

    "At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies."

  2. 2
    a kind of sedan chair used in India wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women. Malaysia, historical

    "... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried."

Etymology

From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.

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