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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 人力車 (じんりきしゃ, jinrikisha).
Pronunciation
Noun
jinriksha (plural jinrikshas)
- Synonym of rickshaw
- 1898 July, Mabel Loomis Todd, "In Aino-land", The Century Illustrated Montly Magazine, Vol. LVI, No. 3, p. 346:
- There are no roads outside the villages in northern Yezo, no jinriksha,—those most fascinating man-power carriages,—no kago, or swinging cars, and no side-saddles...
1904, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, →ISBN:In the Transportation Buildin' is a map one hundred feet long, showing the transportation facilities of the Empire, a perfect network of railways and telegraphand telephone wires, showin' they have other ways of gettin' 'round there besides man-carts and jinrikshas, yes, indeed!