jawan
IPA: dʒʌwˈɑn
noun
- (India) An infantryman; a soldier.
- A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
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Examples of "jawan" in Sentences
- A junior officer, a jawan and a special police official have also lost their lives in the exchange of fire.
- Police said that One Special Police Officer (SPO) and an army jawan also lost their lives in the gun battle.
- The 'jawan' of the day, of course, was Rahul Gandhi, and Nanded was all anticipation to get a glimpse of him.
- In their distant imagining, the jawan is a trained and disciplined machine, 'designed' simply to obey and execute.
- The two AK rifles recovered are the same that Zaffarullah Khan, a jawan of Territorial Army, escaped with last month after he deserted the Army to join the Lashkar.
- Two AK-47 rifles, which were taken away by a deserter jawan of 159 Territorial (H&H) battalion Zaffarullah Parrey on March 8, 2009, were recovered from the site of encounter.
- Earlier on Friday, 38 bodies including the body of Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed and 36 other army officers from the ranks of captain to Maj Gen and a BDR jawan were recovered from a mass grave adjacent to the mortuary of the BDR Hospital.
- Police said thatIn a tragic road mishap twelve passengers including six members of a family, driver of the vehicle and a police jawan were killed while seven others suffered injuries when a Tempo traveller in which they were travelling collided with a bus coming from opposite directions near Bhagyal More Kathua NHW under the jurisdiction of Police Station Kathua in the wee hours of today..