caravan

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , ultimately from (whence 🇨🇬).

The word was used to designate a group of people who were travelling by camel or horse on the Silk Road. .

Noun

 * 1) A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
 * 2)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
 * 1)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
 * 1)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
 * 1)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
 * 1)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
 * 1)  A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: karavan
 * Arabic: قَافِلَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: قافلة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: karvan
 * Belarusian: карава́н
 * Bengali:, কারওয়ান
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 商隊
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: karavano, ruldomo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ქარავანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: συνοδία
 * Gujarati: કારવાં, કાફલો
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: क़ाफ़िला, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: carbhán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, キャラバン
 * Kazakh: керуен
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: караван, кербен
 * Macedonian: карава́н
 * Malay: kafilah, karavan
 * Middle Persian: kʾlwʾn'
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: жингийн цуваа, худалдааны хөсөг
 * Norman: caravanne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: karavane
 * Nynorsk: karavane
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਕਾਫ਼ਲਾ, ਕਾਰਵਾਂ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: caravaneer, caravan
 * Scottish Gaelic: carabhan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каравана
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi: ڪاروان
 * Slovak: karavána
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: karabana
 * Tajik: корвон, қофила
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: карава́н
 * Urdu: قافِلَہ, کارْواں
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: thương đội


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: карава́на,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拖掛房車, 旅行拖車
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: kampingvognur
 * Finnish:, matkailuvaunu
 * French: ,
 * German:, Caravan
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: કારવાં, કાફલો
 * Hawaiian: kaʻa hale
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: carbhán
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: キャンピングトレーラー, トラベルトレーラー
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: приколка, камп-приколка
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: гэр чиргүүл
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: campingvogn
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:,  ,  ,
 * Punjabi: ਕੈਰਾਵੈਨ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: carabhan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: караван
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi: ڪاروان
 * Sotho: kharavane
 * Swedish:, campingvagn
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1) To travel in a caravan (procession).
 * The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
 * 1) * 1984, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts, Volume 12, |%22caravaning%22+-intitle:%22caravaning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22caravaned%22|%22caravaning%22+-intitle:%22caravaning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ta0eT6yhAe6jiAeFt430DQ&redir_esc=y page 73,
 * Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew with particular reference to its developmental aspects.
 * 1)  To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
 * When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning.
 * 1) * 1932, Walter Meade, Caravanning, Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, The Cecil Aldin Book, |%22caravanning%22+-intitle:%22caravanning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22caravanned%22|%22caravanning%22+-intitle:%22caravanning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FJseT7XSM8eaiAekwbTiDQ&redir_esc=y page 55,
 * It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.
 * 1) * 1932, Walter Meade, Caravanning, Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, The Cecil Aldin Book, |%22caravanning%22+-intitle:%22caravanning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22caravanned%22|%22caravanning%22+-intitle:%22caravanning%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FJseT7XSM8eaiAekwbTiDQ&redir_esc=y page 55,
 * It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  type of trailer, mobile home