jaun

From Bengali and Hindi.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dʒɔn/
• (India, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dʒɔːn/

jaun (plural jauns)

1. (India, historical) Synonym of litter, particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century Kolkata.
   • 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 […]

   • 1917, Reginald Clarke, Annual Report on the Police Administration of the Town of Calcutta and Its Suburbs, page 142:

     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.

• “jaun, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “jaun”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ɟau̯n/ [ɟãũ̯n]

• Rhymes: -au̯n
• Hyphenation: jaun

jaun anim

1. lord

• andre (“lady”)

• “jaun”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “jaun”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• iaun

Inherited from Latin iuvenis. Compare Venetan xovane.

jaun (feminine jauna)

1. young