Other forms: rickshaws
A rickshaw is a small vehicle pulled or pedalled to carry passengers. Take a rickshaw, a cycle rickshaw, an auto rickshaw.
The pulled kind has almost vanished and was banned in many cities as degrading; what survives is the cycle rickshaw and the motorised auto rickshaw, which is the standard short-distance taxi across South Asia. The name is Japanese.
1nounrickshawA small vehicle pulled or pedalled to carry passengers.
“We took a rickshaw through the busy streets of Delhi to the market.”
rickshaw is a vehicle.
A clipping of Japanese jinrikisha, which means human-power-vehicle.
Japanese
力車
English, today
rickshaw
Borrowed from Japanese 力車. Japanese - 力%車, a clipping of 人%力%車, from ltc - 人力 + 車 (compare cmn 人力車).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA