trishaw
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7.0
- noun
- Indian
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triciclo
- The tourist hired a trishaw to explore the city streets comfortably.
Examples
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In Southeast Asia, include the "trishaw" cabs and vans in your street scenes.
Academic text (1994) -
"I have to make a special trip to convince them that somehow we will find the money for the trishaws.
Blog text (29) -
One trishaw costs approximately LKR 385,000 plus insurance.
Blog text (29) -
Recalls Tiruchandran, "The first major constraint was finding the funds to buy the trishaws."
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So I personally raised funds through friends and relatives from Sri Lanka and abroad and finally succeeded in buying the trishaws," shares Tiruchandran.
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Meanwhile, the potential trishaw drivers in Jaffna kept waiting, licenses in hand, for more than four months, getting increasingly restive and desperate as time went by.
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In many Asian cities, a trishaw is a popular way to transport passengers short distances.
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He enjoyed riding in the trishaw as it offered a unique view of the bustling market.
Synonyms
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8.8
A three-wheeled bicycle taxi that carries people in some Asian cities
1
3.9
A small three-wheeled vehicle that a person pedals to carry passengers for money
How Motorized
Surface Forms
Morphology
trishaw = rickshaw (transparent) = tri + shaw
Formed by the prefix 'tri-' (three) applied to the '-shaw' element (from rickshaw); knowing 'tri' and 'rickshaw' allows learners to infer a three-wheeled rickshaw.
Etymology
Trishaw was made by joining tri- ('three') to the name rickshaw, so it means a 'three-wheeled' vehicle used to carry people or goods, especially in parts of Asia.