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champana

champana is the alternative form of sampan.

Meaning of sampan

Noun

sampan (plural sampans)

  1. (historical) A Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.
    • We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96

Forms of champana

pluralchampanas

Questions about champana

What is champana the alternative form of?
Champana is the alternative form of sampan.

Words near champana in the dictionary

  1. champak
  2. champaka
  3. champakas
  4. champaks
  5. champan
  6. champana
  7. champanas
  8. champane
  9. champanes
  10. champans
  11. champansky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: champana (page history and authors); sampan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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