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‖ palankeen, palanquin, n.|pælənˈkiːn|
Forms: α. 6 palanchin, pal(l)anchine, pallankin, 7 palankine, -quine, pallenkine, pallanquin, (pollankan, palamkin, -keen, palakin, pallaquin), 7–8 pallankeen, palenkeen, 8 pallenkeen, 7– palankin, palanquin, 8– palankeen. Also β. 7 palanke, -ka, 7–8 palankee, 8 palanque. See also palkee.
[orig. a. Pg. palanquim (1515 in Correa Lendas da India), whence also It. palanchino, Sp. and F. palanquin (1611 in Hatz.-Darm.), repr. an E. Ind. vernacular word *pālankī: cf. Malay and Javanese palangki ‘litter or sedan’ (Crawford), Hindī † pālakī, pālkī ‘palankeen’, f. Skr. paryaṅka, palyaṅka couch, bed, Pālī pallaṅko ‘couch, bed, litter, or palankin’ (Childers), Hindī and Marāthī palang bedstead, couch. The final nasal appears to have been a Portuguese addition as in mandarin, and is often absent from the forms given by early travellers, as also from palkee.
There is a curious resemblance between this and the Sp. palanca:—L. phalanga, pole to carry a burden, cowl-staff, whence palanquino, ‘a bearer, one of two who carry a burden between them on a pole’, which some earlier writers held to be the source of the E. Indian word. Yule & Burnell suggest that the Portuguese may have associated the two.]
A covered litter or conveyance, usually for one person, used in India and other Eastern countries, consisting of a large box with wooden shutters like Venetian blinds, carried by four or six (rarely two) men by means of poles projecting before and behind.
α1588T. Hickock tr. C. Frederick's Voy. 10 (11) Making readye to depart, with two Palanchines or little Litters, which are very commodious for the waye. 1598W. Phillips Linschoten i. xv. 27/1 Great and thicke reeds, which are vsed in India to make the Pallankins, wherein they carry the women. 1612R. Coverte Voy. 37 He is brought vpon an Elephant..and sometimes in a Pollankan, carried by foure slaues. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. ix. 416 Set it in a Palamkin, which was borne by the chiefe men of the Towne. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lvi. (1663) 218 They caused themselves to be born in Pallaquins or Arm-chairs, upon the shoulders of other Priests their inferiors. 1662J. Davies Mandelslo's Trav. 82 Some⁓times carried in Palanquines, which are a kind of Litters or Sedans, carried by two men upon their shoulders with a bar. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Palakin (from the Spanish Palanquino a Porter). 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 690/1 Then the Empress's Palankin or Litter. 1785in European Mag. (1786) IX. 177 They handed us each to a fly pallenkeen. 1885Bible (R.V.) Song Sol. iii. 9 King Solomon made himself a palanquin. 1885A. Dobson Sign of Lyre 177 Behold the hero of the scene, In bungalow and palankeen.
β1625Terry in Purchas Pilgrims ii. ix. vi. §3. 1475 Carried vpon mens shoulders..in a slight thing they call a Palankee. Ibid. §4. 1481 His [Great Mogol's] Wiues and Women of all sorts..are carryed in Palankas, or vpon Elephants. 1738[G. Smith] Curious Relat. II. 504 He is carried on a stately Palanque. 1747Gentl. Mag. 341 The enemy..lost..2 chests of arms, their provisions, palankees.
b. attrib. and Comb., as palankeen-bearer, palankeen-boy, palankeen-phaeton, palankeen-pole, etc.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 34 Ambling after these a great pace, the Palenkeen-Boys support them. c1813Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady xii. 73 One of the palanquin⁓bearers came into the verandah. 1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 89, I have had all the palanquin-boys, who are the best housemaids here, hard at work. Ibid. 163 He..put his shoulder under the palanquin-pole, and set off with his song again. 1877Black Green Past. xlvi. (1878) 368 The roof of our palanquin-phaeton was of blue cloth.
Hence palanˈkeen, -ˈquin v. intr., to travel in a palankeen: also to palankeen it.
1832Examiner 340/1 They..are content to hookah and palanquin it. 1840E. Napier Scenes & Sp. in For. Lands II. vi. 210 About one months marching, or rather palankeening, brought me to Madras. a1845Hood To Lady on Dep. India vi, Go to the land of slaves and palankeening. |