Palanquin

Definition: Palanquin

Palanquin

Noun

1. A closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers.

Date "palanquin" was first used: 1588. (references)

Synonym: Palanquin

Synonym: palankeen (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Palanquin

English words defined with "palanquin": Dooly ♦ Palkee. (references)

"Palanquin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palanquin" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "palanquin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		palankin (palankeen), vig për persona të lartë (palankeen). (various references)

Bulgarian		паланкин (palankeen). (various references)

Farsi		پالکی , تخت روان (Bier, Litter). (various references)

German		sänfte (chair, howdah, litter, sedan, sedan chair). (various references)

Greek		ανατολικό φορείον. (various references)

Hungarian		gyaloghintó (palankeen, sedan). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		輿 (bier, litter), 駕� (bier, litter), 駕篭 (bier, litter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�" (basket, bier, cage, divine protection, fault, litter, mistake, non-standard pronunciation), �"し (ancient history, ancient poems, bier, dying, hip, historic ruins, litter, old small shrine, paper for recycling, used paper, withering). (various references)

Pig Latin		alanquinpay.(various references)

Romanian		palanchin (palankeen), lecticã (litter, palankeen). (various references)

Russian		носилки (doolie, hand-barrow, litter, palankeen, sedan chair, stretcher), паланкин (go cart, palankeen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		palankin (palankeen). (various references)

Swedish		palankin (palankeen), bärstol (litter, sedan, sedan chair). (various references)

Turkish		tahtırevan (chair, litter, sedan, sedan chair). (various references)

Vietnamese		kiệu (palankeen), cáng (hand-barrow, palankeen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sanskrit	300 BCE-Modern	palyanka-s. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "palanquin": palanquins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Palanquin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baldaquin, Palanque, palaquin, palemque, Palenque, pamaquin, Paranaque, planquin, Salaquin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-n-n-p-q-u"
	-2 letters: pinnula.
	-3 letters: alanin, annual, annuli, paulin, pinnal, qualia, unnail.
	-4 letters: annal, annul, apian, lanai, lapin, lauan, liana, lupin, pilau, pinna, plain, quail, ulpan, unpin.
	-5 letters: alan, anal, anil, anna, aqua, lain, linn, lipa, luna, naan, nail, nana, nipa, pail, pain, pial, pian, pina, plan, pula, puli, puna, quai, quin, quip, ulan, ulna, unai.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-n-n-p-q-u"
	+1 letter: palanquins.
	+2 letters: aquaplaning.
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