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Borrowed from Hindustani جوان (jvān) / जवान (javān), from Classical Persian جوان (jawān, young, a youth).

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈwɑːn/
  • (file)

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jawan (plural jawans)

  1. (India) An infantryman; a soldier.
    • 1992, Satyindra Singh, Blueprint to Bluewater: The Indian Navy, 1951-65, page 402:
      In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.
    • 1999, R. D. Pradhan, Debacle to Revival: Y.B. Chavan as Defence Minister, 1962-65, page 44:
      He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.
    • 2011, Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee, translation of original by Arupa Patangia Kalita:
      They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud.

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jawan

  1. fish

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