"howdah" meaning in All languages combined

See howdah on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhaʊdə/ Forms: howdahs [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊdə Etymology: From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|हौदा}} Hindi हौदा (haudā), {{der|en|ar|هَوْدَج||litter carried by a camel}} Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”), {{root|en|ar|ه د ج}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} howdah (plural howdahs)
  1. A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. Categories (lifeform): Elephants Translations (Translations): هَوْدَج (hawdaj) (Arabic), مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa) (english: covered, for women) (Arabic), شقدف (šagdaf) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), هودج (hōdaj) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), haudah (Indonesian), hodah (Malay), کجاوه (Persian)
    Sense id: en-howdah-en-noun-xjjJEgVk Disambiguation of Elephants: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Persian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 65 35
  2. An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. Categories (lifeform): Elephants
    Sense id: en-howdah-en-noun-FT0ZeAez Disambiguation of Elephants: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: houdah, howda, howder

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "हौदा"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi हौदा (haudā)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "هَوْدَج",
        "4": "",
        "5": "litter carried by a camel"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ه د ج"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "howdahs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "howdah (plural howdahs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Malay translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Persian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Elephants",
          "orig": "en:Elephants",
          "parents": [
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Raja Rao, Kanthapura:",
          "text": "They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:",
          "text": "I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:",
          "text": "I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel."
      ],
      "id": "en-howdah-en-noun-xjjJEgVk",
      "links": [
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ],
        [
          "canopy",
          "canopy"
        ],
        [
          "elephant",
          "elephant"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "hawdaj",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "هَوْدَج"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "ar",
          "english": "covered, for women",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "miḥaffa",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "مِحَفَّة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "acw",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "šagdaf",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "Hijazi-Arabic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "شقدف"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "acw",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "hōdaj",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "Hijazi-Arabic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "هودج"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "haudah"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "hodah"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "کجاوه"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Elephants",
          "orig": "en:Elephants",
          "parents": [
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant."
      ],
      "id": "en-howdah-en-noun-FT0ZeAez"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaʊdə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊdə"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "houdah"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "howda"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "howder"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "howdah"
  ],
  "word": "howdah"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
    "English terms derived from Arabic",
    "English terms derived from Hindi",
    "English terms derived from the Arabic root ه د ج",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/aʊdə",
    "Rhymes:English/aʊdə/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Malay translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Translation table header lacks gloss",
    "en:Elephants"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "हौदा"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi हौदा (haudā)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "هَوْدَج",
        "4": "",
        "5": "litter carried by a camel"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ه د ج"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "howdahs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "howdah (plural howdahs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Raja Rao, Kanthapura:",
          "text": "They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:",
          "text": "I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:",
          "text": "I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ],
        [
          "canopy",
          "canopy"
        ],
        [
          "elephant",
          "elephant"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaʊdə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊdə"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "houdah"
    },
    {
      "word": "howda"
    },
    {
      "word": "howder"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hawdaj",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "هَوْدَج"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "english": "covered, for women",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "miḥaffa",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "مِحَفَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šagdaf",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "Hijazi-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "شقدف"
    },
    {
      "code": "acw",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hōdaj",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "Hijazi-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "هودج"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "haudah"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hodah"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "کجاوه"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "howdah"
  ],
  "word": "howdah"
}

Download raw JSONL data for howdah meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.