Jamaica

→ Japanese: ジャマイカ (Jamaika)

From Taíno Xaymaca (“land of wood and water”), from Taino maca (“wood”).


mento

en-noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

Musician who never meet before the journey entertain we with mento song.

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 19:

a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.


bulla

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bull.

(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.


Portmore

A city in the parish of Saint Catherine, Jamaica.


Montegonian

A native or inhabitant of Montego Bay, Jamaica.


cow cod soup

(cooking) A traditional Jamaican dish made with bull penis cooked with bananas and Scotch bonnets in a rum-based broth.


mannish water

(Jamaica) Jamaican goat soup, supposed to be an aphrodisiac.


hard dough bread

A Jamaican bread similar to the Pullman loaf or pain de mie, but typically sweeter.


coco bread

A Jamaican bread made with coconut milk.


pepperpot soup

pepperpot soup (countable and uncountable, plural pepperpot soups)

A spicy Jamaican soup with meat and vegetables.


grater cake

grater cake (countable and uncountable, plural grater cakes)

A Jamaican dessert of grated coconut in a fondant of sugar.


cut cake

cut cake (countable and uncountable, plural cut cakes)

(Uyghur traditional confectionery): So called because it is made in large blocks, from which slices are cut.

A Jamaican dessert made with sliced coconut, ginger and brown sugar.

A traditional snack of the Uyghur in Xinjiang, made with candied fruit, syrup, flour, and nuts.


Like 911, 119, etc., selected as a number both fast and easy to call from rotary or touch-tone phones and less likely to be mistakenly dialed.

The telephone number for emergency services in Iran.

110 handles police emergencies in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea but fires and medical emergencies have a separate number, 119.

The telephone number for law enforcement in China, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, Bolivia, Guatamala, Andorra, Nauru, and the Ivory Coast and on Taiwan.

The telephone number for ambulance services in Jamaica, Syria, and Sri Lanka.

The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Norway, Jamaica, Suriname, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Papua New Guinea.


The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.


Jamaicanize

en-verb

Jamaicanize (third-person singular simple present Jamaicanizes, present participle Jamaicanizing, simple past and past participle Jamaicanized)

Jamaicanizes (present singular third-person)
Jamaicanizing (participle present)
Jamaicanized (participle past)
Jamaicanized (past)

Barclays Bank is the fourth foreign owned bank to Jamaicanize its operations.

1973, Caribbean and Central American Letter:

And then I decided it was time for me to come home and to bring all that experience and to Jamaicanize it and I said if I come home I really want to promote art.

2001, Cari Lee Borja, Jamaican Art Worlds: Encounters, Transformations and Metamorphoses:

Today, Jamaican is spoken by about five million people, who manage to preserve it thanks to their ability to Jamaicanize English words and a positive attitude towards neologisms.

2017, Roberto Masone, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:


Jamaican blind snake

en-noun

Jamaican blind snake (plural Jamaican blind snakes)

Typhlops jamaicensis, a species of blind snake.


Nine Mile

A town in the parish of Saint Ann, Jamaica.