Jamaican

From Jamaica +‎ -an.

• enPR: jə-mā'kən, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈmeɪkən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkən

Jamaican (plural Jamaicans)

1. A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
2. The Jamaican creole language.
3. Jamaican English.

• (creole language): Jamaican Creole, Jamaican Patois, Patois, patois, Patwa

• (person of Jamaican descent): person
• (creole language): creole, creole language (Creole language)
• (English): English

• Jafaican
• Jamerican

Jamaican (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.

• Jamaicanize
  • Jamaicanization
• Jamaicanness
• Jamaican apple
• Jamaican blind snake
• Jamaican dollar
• Jamaican patty
• Jamaican time
• Jamaican vomiting sickness
• Jamaican spindalis (Spindalis nigricephala)

• Ethnologue entry for Jamaican Creole English, jam ⁠

• Jamiekan, Jumiekan

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʌˈmʲeːkan/, /d͡ʒaˈmʲeːkan/
• Hyphenation: Ja‧mai‧can

Jamaican

1. Jamaican

   A normal Jamaican ting dat.

   That's a normal Jamaican thing.

   • 2019, Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain: Longlisted for the Giller Prize 2019 (in English), →ISBN:

     “ […] Yuh sure yuh a Jamaican gyal? […] ”

     […] Girl, are you sure you're Jamaican? […]

Jamaican (plural Jamaican dem, quantified Jamaican)

1. Jamaican

   Mi haffi tell unnu dat mi a Jamaican.

   I must say (to you all) that I'm a Jamaican.

   • 2005, Mervyn Morris, Making West Indian Literature (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN, page 80:

     “ […] 'nutten eena di world nuh sweet like when fi mi Jamaican dem go fi spoke […] ”

     […] nothing in the world is better than when Jamaicans attempt to speak eloquently […]

• Jamaica

• Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 311