İngilizce dilinde "jampan" tanımı

noun

1. (India, chiefly historical) Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.

2. (Malaysia, chiefly historical) Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.

   • ... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.