"tonjon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Hindi तामजान (tāmjān).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Chairs",
          "orig": "en:Chairs",
          "parents": [
            "Furniture",
            "Sitting",
            "Home",
            "Body",
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Vehicles",
          "orig": "en:Vehicles",
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            "Machines",
            "Transport",
            "Technology",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "ref": "1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21:",
          "text": "The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, \"Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta\", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, p. 139",
          "text": "The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago."
        }
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        "An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back."
      ],
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          "open",
          "open"
        ],
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          "sedan chair",
          "sedan chair"
        ],
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          "raise",
          "raise"
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          "single",
          "single"
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          "pole",
          "pole"
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          "front",
          "front"
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          "back",
          "back"
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        "(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tomjohn"
        },
        {
          "word": "tamjan"
        },
        {
          "word": "jampan"
        }
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        "historical"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "tāmjān",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "तामजान"
        },
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          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "nālakī",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "నాలకీ"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʈɔnˌdʒɔn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɒndʒɒn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonjon"
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  "etymology_text": "From Hindi तामजान (tāmjān).",
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      "form": "tonjons",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21:",
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        },
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        }
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      ],
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          "sedan chair"
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          "pole"
        ],
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          "front",
          "front"
        ],
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          "back",
          "back"
        ]
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        "(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʈɔnˌdʒɔn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɒndʒɒn/"
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tomjohn"
    },
    {
      "word": "tamjan"
    },
    {
      "word": "jampan"
    }
  ],
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "tāmjān",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "तामजान"
    },
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      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "nālakī",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "నాలకీ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonjon"
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