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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Portuguese palanquim, from Odia ପାଲଙ୍କି (palôṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
palanquin (plural palanquins)
- A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia.
Translations
a covered type of litter
- Albanian: palankin m
- Arabic: حَمَّالَة f (ḥammāla), مِحَفَّة f (miḥaffa)
- Armenian: դեսպակ (hy) (despak), ժանվար (hy) (žanvar), գահավորակ (hy) (gahavorak), գահույք (hy) (gahuykʻ)
- Belarusian: паланкі́н m (palankín)
- Bengali: পালকি (bn) (paloki)
- Bulgarian: паланкин m (palankin), покрита носилка (pokrita nosilka)
- Burmese: သန်လျင်း (my) (sanlyang:), ဝေါ (my) (wau:)
- Catalan: palanquí m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 轎子／轿子 (zh) (jiàozi), 轎／轿 (zh) (jiào), 輿／舆 (zh) (yú)
- Czech: palankýn m, palankin m
- Danish: bærestol
- Dutch: palankijn (nl)
- Egyptian: (qnjw)
- Esperanto: palankeno
- Finnish: palankiini (fi)
- French: palanquin (fr)
- Galician: palanquín m
- German: Sänfte (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: φορεῖον n (phoreîon)
- Hindi: पालकी (hi) f (pālkī)
- Italian: portantina f, palanchino (it) m
- Japanese: 駕籠 (ja) (かご, kago), 輿 (ja) (こし, koshi)
- Khmer: វ (km) (vɔɔ), សលៀង (km) (sɑliəng)
- Korean: 가마 (ko) (gama)
- Lao: ຍານະ (nyā na), ຕະຫລ່ຽງ (ta līang), ວໍ (wǭ), ສະຫລ່ຽງ (sa līang), ສິວິກາ (si wi kā), ຄານຫາມ (khān hām)
- Latin: feretrum n, lectīca f
- Lü: ᦶᦂᧁᧈ (k̇aew¹)
- Malayalam: പല്ലക്ക് (ml) (pallakkŭ)
- Mon: ဝဝ် (wò), သြေၚ်
- Ottoman Turkish: سدیه (sedye)
- Persian: پالکی (fa) (pâlki)
- Polish: palankin (pl) m
- Portuguese: palanquim (pt) m
- Romanian: palanchin (ro) n
- Russian: паланки́н (ru) m (palankín)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: носиљка f
- Roman: nosiljka (sh) f
- Shan: ဝေႃး (shn) (wáu)
- Spanish: palanquín m
- Swedish: palankin c
- Tamil: பல்லாக்கு (ta) (pallākku)
- Telugu: అందలము (te) (andalamu), పల్లకి (te) (pallaki)
- Thai: คานหาม (th) (kaan-hǎam), วอ (th) (wɔɔ), เกี้ยว (th) (gîao), แคร่หาม, เสลี่ยง (th) (sà-lìiang)
- Ukrainian: паланкі́н m (palankín)
- Urdu: پالکی f (pālkī)
- Vietnamese: kiệu (vi) (轎 (vi)), cáng (vi)
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See also
French
Etymology
From Hindi and Pali and Odia ପାଲଙ୍କି (palôṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
palanquin m (plural palanquins)
- palanquin
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