jawan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 5
Definition of jawan
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(India)An infantryman; a soldier.
“In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.”
“He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.”
“They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud.”
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noun
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(India)An infantryman; a soldier.
“In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.”
“He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.”
“They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud.”
- (form-of, plural)plural of jinn
name
- A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā Proto-Iranian *HyúHā Middle Persian [script needed] (yw'n /ǰuwān/) Classical Persian جَوَان (jawān)bor. Hindi जवान (javān)bor. English jawan Borrowed from Hindustani جوان (jvān) / जवान (javān), from Classical Persian جوان (jawān, “young, a youth”).
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