Jamaican en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /d͡ʒəˈmeɪkən/
- jə-mā'kən
Etymology
Etymology tree Taíno maca (wood)der. Taíno Xaymaca (land of wood and water)bor. English Jamaica Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Jamaican From Jamaica + -an.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.
Thomas says his only option now is to apply for Jamaican citizenship through his late father. But he does not plan to, since “my life, my kids, my family is back in the States,” he said.
2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025:
Deriveds
Jamaican dollar · Jamaican time · Jamaican ebony · Jamaican vomiting sickness · Jamaicanization · Jamaicanness · Jamaican blind snake · Jamaican patty · Jamaican spindalis · Jamaican apple · Jamaicanize
Translations (31)
la Jamaicensis (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · ro jamaican (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · cs jamajský (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · bg ямайски (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · pl jamajski (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · es jamaiquino (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · ast xamaicanu (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · it giamaicano (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · nn jamaicansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · nn jamaikansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · ru яма́йский (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · sw Kijamaika (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · fi jamaikalainen (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · nb jamaikansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · jam Jumiekan (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · sv jamaicansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · uk яма́йський (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · sh jamajkanski (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · es jamaicano (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · io Jamaikana (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · fr jamaïquain (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · ga Iamácach (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · pt jamaicano (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · nb jamaicansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · fr jamaïcain (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · gl xamaicano (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · ca jamaicà (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · da jamaicansk (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · el τζαμαϊκανός (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · gv Jamaicagh (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language) · de jamaikanisch (of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language)