Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tonjon

/ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ton-jon
IPA: /ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.

Example Sentences

"The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared."
"The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago."

Etymology

From Hindi तामजान (tāmjān).

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: तामजान

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/
British English: /ˈtɒndʒɒn/

Inflected Forms

tonjons (plural) tomjohn (alternative) tamjan (alternative)

Synonyms

jampan

Questions

How do you pronounce tonjon?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/.
What does tonjon mean?: An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.
Where does tonjon come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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