jaun

English

Noun

jaun (plural jauns)

  1. (India, historical) A small palanquin carriage of the kind commonly used by businessmen going to their offices.
    • 1917, Calcutta (India). Commissioner of Police, Annual Report on the Police Administration of the Town of Calcutta and its Suburbs (page cxlii)
      A large number of accidents are also caused by office jauns which as a class are driven too fast and by inexperienced men. It has been suggested that these jauns should be registered and numbered and their drivers licensed.
    • 1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis:
      Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green, / With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between, / Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]

Basque

Noun

jaun anim

  1. lord

Antonyms

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin iuvenis, iuvenem or juvenem. Compare Italian giovane, Venetian xovane, Romanian june, French jeune.

Adjective

jaun (feminine jauna)

  1. young
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