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Borrowed from Hindustani جوان (jvān) / जवान (javān), from Classical Persian جوان (jawān, “young, a youth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈwɑːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]jawan (plural jawans)
- (India) An infantryman; a soldier.
- 1992, Satyindra Singh, Blueprint to Bluewater: The Indian Navy, 1951-65, page 402:
- In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.
- 1999, R. D. Pradhan, Debacle to Revival: Y.B. Chavan as Defence Minister, 1962-65, page 44:
- He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.
- 2011, Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee, translation of original by Arupa Patangia Kalita:
- They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud.
Translations
[edit]infantryman, soldier
Anagrams
[edit]Yagara
[edit]Noun
[edit]jawan
References
[edit]- State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Brisbane Animal Words.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)
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