jampan

From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæmˌpæn/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒhaːmpaːn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒampan/

jampan (plural jampans)

1. (India, chiefly historical) 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.
   • 1887, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar..., page 139:

     At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.

2. (Malaysia, chiefly historical) Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
   • 1886, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "Jompon":

     ... 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.

• (archaic) jampana, janpan, jampona, jhampan, jempana, djempana, sampan, sempana, jampaun, jaumpaun, jhappan, jampot, jompon, chumpaun, chumpala

• jampani

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “jonpon”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson , London: John Murray, .