Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one or two persons.

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  • noun A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Japanese jinrikisha : jin, person (from Middle Chinese rin) + riki, strength (from Middle Chinese lik) + sha, cart, carriage, vehicle (from Middle Chinese hia, probably of Indo-European origin; akin to Tocharian A kukäl Tocharian B kokale, wagon); see kwel- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Japanese 人力車 (じんりきしゃ, jinrikisha).

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Examples

  • There are still slower means like the jinriksha and the trishaw, but as a means of locomotion they are giving way to scooters and motorcycles.

    World's Densest Cities 2006

  • The rousters, like the jinriksha men, descend from one generation to another.

    My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

  • Twice a week, Miss Pelham came down from the château in a gaily bedecked jinriksha to sit opposite to him in his stuffy corner of the banking house, his desk between them, her notebook trembling with propinquity.

    The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • "I'd walk up to the château if I were you," he said, when they clamoured for a jinriksha apiece.

    The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • The jinriksha, with its human motor, must, it struck me the first time that I saw them, be a decided obstacle to courtship, for what young fellow would care to take his best girl out riding behind

    A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Adrian Constantine Anson 1887

  • We drove to the market, using the Japanese jinriksha -- our first acquaintanceship with it.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • We drove to the market, using the Japanese jinriksha -- our first acquaintanceship with it.

    Following the Equator, Part 4 Mark Twain 1872

  • [Page 12] dirty, and the streets are for the most part too narrow for anything broader than a sedan or a "rickshaw" (jinriksha).

    The Awakening of China 1871

  • I noted, for example: gingko No ginkgo noh jiujitsu oban jujitsu obang jinricksha samisen jinrikshaw samsien jinriksha Shin ricksha Shin-shu rickshaw shoyu rikisha soy keyaki kiaki I must also question whether all the words listed by Cannon are really Japanese loanwords.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

  • Ito sukashi dairi Hamamatsu, adj. itzebu dai-sho hanami jaburan dai-sho-no-soroimono hanamichi janken hanashika jigotai dan haniwa jimigaki daruma haori jingu do happi-coat jinja dojo harai goshi jinkai senjitsu dotaku hara-kiri jinricksha emakimono hashigakari jinrikisha Eta Hashimoto's jinriksha fuchi hatamoto jito fugu hayashi jiu-jitsu fuji hechima Jodo Fukuoka, adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

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