palanquin

• palankeen

From Portuguese palanquim, from Oriya [script needed] (pālaṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”), from परि (pari, “around, about”) + अङ्कस् (aṅkas, “bend, curve”).

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpæləŋˈkiːn/

palanquin (plural palanquins)

1. 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.

• sedan chair

From Hindi and Pali and Oriya [script needed] (pālaṅki), ultimately from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, bedstead”), from परि (pari, “around, about”) + अङ्कस् (aṅkas, “bend, curve”).

palanquin m (plural palanquins)

1. palanquin

• “palanquin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).