palanquins
Meaning of palanquins
plural noun
(in India and the East) a covered litter for one passenger, consisting of a large box carried on two horizontal poles by four or six bearers.
late 16th century: from Portuguese palanquim, from Oriya pālaṅki, based on Sanskrit palyanka ‘bed, couch’.
Information about palanquins
- It is a name.
- The singular form of palanquins is: palanquin.
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Hyphenation of palanquins
palan-quins
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- palanquins is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with palanquins
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