Meanings
plural mancheels · alternative manjeel · alternative muncheel · alternative munchil · alternative munsheel · alternative monchil
- IndiahistoricalA covered hammock litter developed in southwest India.
A Muncheel is a kind of litter, resembling a sea-cot, or hammock, hung to a long pole, with a moveable covering over the whole, to keep off the sun or rain. Six men will run with one from one end of the Malabar coast to the other, while twelve are necessary for the lightest palanquin.
1830, James Welsh, Military Reminiscences, volume II, page 1421 more example
The muncheel or manjeel..., also written munsheel and munchil, from the Malayālam manjīl, manjāl, mañchīl, mañchāl and Sanskrit maṇcha, is the name given to a kind of hammock-litter used on the south-west coast of India... It is shaded by a cover, which in some cases is held up by a frame of bent canes.
2002, Norman Mosley Penzer, Poison Damsels, page 231
Origin
- Arabicمَنْزِل“house; inn; stage of a journey, day's travel”
- Classical Persianمَنْزِل
- Englishmancheel
From Malayalam, from Sanskrit or from Classical Persian مَنْزِل (manzil), from Arabic مَنْزِل (manzil, “house; inn; stage of a journey, day's travel”).
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