jampan
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
jampan
- /ˈdʒæmˌpæn/ US
- /ˈdʒhaːmpaːn/ India
- /ˈdʒampan/ UK
Where it comes from
From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.
noun jampans · jampana · janpan · jampona · jhampan · jempana
-
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.
At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.
Similar: dandy or tonjon
-
Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
... 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.
Similar: mihaffa
Translations
Every language
noun Translations
| हिन्दी | झँपान jhãpān |
|---|
Talk about this word "jampan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/jampan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. jampan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/jampan "jampan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/jampan.Cite this
@misc{jampan_2026,
title = {jampan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jampan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
