"janpan" meaning in English

See janpan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: janpans [plural]
Etymology: From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hi|झँपान}} Hindi झँपान (jhãpān), {{bor|en|bn|-}} Bengali Head templates: {{en-noun}} janpan (plural janpans)
  1. (dated) jampan (an open chair carried by several people). Tags: dated Synonyms: chair, throne
    Sense id: en-janpan-en-noun-PGsogmw4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "झँपान"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi झँपान (jhãpān)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Bengali",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "janpans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "janpan (plural janpans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1859, John Lang, Wanderings in India - And Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan, volume 2, page 6:",
          "text": "Oh! here comes a janpan! (a sort of sedan chair carried by four hill men, dressed in loose black clothes, turned up with red, yellow, blue, green, or whatever colour the proprietor likes best) And in the janpan sits a lady - Mrs Apsley, a very pretty, good-tempered, and well-bred little lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, William Knighton, Elihu Jan's Story - Or, The Private Life of an Eastern Queen, page 6:",
          "text": "But my father was not content, and one day when the king, Umjid Aly Shah, was going through the streets of Lucknow in his janpan or chair, my father threw himself on the ground before him, and begged for justice and mercy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "jampan (an open chair carried by several people)."
      ],
      "id": "en-janpan-en-noun-PGsogmw4",
      "links": [
        [
          "jampan",
          "jampan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) jampan (an open chair carried by several people)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chair"
        },
        {
          "word": "throne"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "janpan"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "झँपान"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi झँपान (jhãpān)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Bengali",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "janpans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "janpan (plural janpans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Bengali",
        "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Bengali",
        "English terms derived from Hindi",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1859, John Lang, Wanderings in India - And Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan, volume 2, page 6:",
          "text": "Oh! here comes a janpan! (a sort of sedan chair carried by four hill men, dressed in loose black clothes, turned up with red, yellow, blue, green, or whatever colour the proprietor likes best) And in the janpan sits a lady - Mrs Apsley, a very pretty, good-tempered, and well-bred little lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, William Knighton, Elihu Jan's Story - Or, The Private Life of an Eastern Queen, page 6:",
          "text": "But my father was not content, and one day when the king, Umjid Aly Shah, was going through the streets of Lucknow in his janpan or chair, my father threw himself on the ground before him, and begged for justice and mercy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "jampan (an open chair carried by several people)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jampan",
          "jampan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) jampan (an open chair carried by several people)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chair"
        },
        {
          "word": "throne"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "janpan"
}

Download raw JSONL data for janpan meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). 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.