Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mancheel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mancheel
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.

Indian usage

Example Sentences

"A Muncheel is a kind of litter, resembling a sea-cot, or hammock, hung to a long pole, with a moveable covering over the whole, to keep off the sun or rain. Six men will run with one from one end of the Malabar coast to the other, while twelve are necessary for the lightest palanquin."
"The muncheel or manjeel..., also written munsheel and munchil, from the Malayālam manjīl, manjāl, mañchīl, mañchāl and Sanskrit maṇcha, is the name given to a kind of hammock-litter used on the south-west coast of India... It is shaded by a cover, which in some cases is held up by a frame of bent canes."

Etymology

From Malayalam, from Sanskrit or from Classical Persian مَنْزِل (manzil), from Arabic مَنْزِل (manzil, “house; inn; stage of a journey, day's travel”).

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Word Breakdown

Root: -, مَنْزِل

Usage

Indian usage

Inflected Forms

mancheels (plural) manjeel (alternative) muncheel (alternative) munchil (alternative) munsheel (alternative) monchil (alternative)

Questions

What does mancheel mean?: A covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.
Where does mancheel come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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