pan

pan

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of pan in English

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Translingual

Symbol

pan

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Punjabi.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæn/
  • Homophone: panne
  • Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, kind of flat dish), which is probably from Pre-Greek.

Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.

Noun

pan (plural pans or (humorous) pen)

  1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
  4. (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
  5. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
  6. (geography, geology) An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
    1. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
    2. (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
    3. (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
    4. Short for salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
  7. (geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  8. (geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
  9. Strong adverse criticism.
  10. A loaf of bread.
  11. (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
  12. A bedpan.
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.
  13. (slang) A human face, a mug.
  14. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
  15. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
  16. (firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
    flash in the pan
  17. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
  18. (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
    • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale,
      Unto the devil rough and black of hue
      Give I thy body and my pan also."
  19. (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  20. (music) Short for steelpan.
Synonyms
  • (flat receptacle): frying pan, skillet, cookie sheet, tin
  • (tall receptacle): saucepan
  • (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
  • (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet
Hypernyms
  • (expanse of flat land in a depression): salt pan, salt flat, alkali pan
Hyponyms
  • (expanse of flat land in a depression): flat
Derived terms
Descendants
  • ? Irish: panna
  • Japanese: パン
Translations

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

  1. (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
    Coordinate term: sluice
  2. (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criticize
  3. (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
Translations
See also
  • lavatory (place where gold is panned) (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From a clipped form of panorama.

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

  1. (intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
  2. (intransitive, photography) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
  3. (intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
  4. (audio) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
Coordinate terms
  • (of a camera): cant, tilt
Derived terms
  • pan and scan
  • pan out
  • panner
Translations
See also
  • cinema
  • cinematography
  • portrait
  • tripod

Noun

pan (plural pans)

  1. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
Derived terms
  • whip pan

Etymology 3

Noun

pan (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of paan

Etymology 4

Compare French pan (skirt, lappet), Latin pannus (a cloth, rag). Doublet of pagne, pane, and pannus.

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
    • 31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury
      Pan it down—press an article into its proper place

Etymology 5

From Old English. See pane.

Noun

pan (plural pans)

  1. A part; a portion.
  2. (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  3. A leaf of gold or silver.

Etymology 6

Clipping of pansexual or panromantic.

Adjective

pan (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.
    • 2013, Alejandra Rodriguez, "Isn't That Bisexual?", Outwrite, Fall 2013, page 7:
      Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. [] "
    • 2013, Megan Hertner, "Understanding Gender and Sexuality", Grapevine (Huron University College), December 2013, page 19:
      A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pan.
Coordinate terms
  • bi, mono

Etymology 7

Clipping of pantograph

Noun

pan (plural pans)

  1. (rail transport, informal) Short for pantograph.
Synonyms
  • (pantograph): panto

See also

Anagrams

  • -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pan, from Middle Dutch panne, from Old Dutch *panna, from Latin panna, contraction of patina. The sense “lake, pond” is likely borrowed from or influenced by English pan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pan/

Noun

pan (plural panne)

  1. pan (receptacle)
  2. lake or pond; pan

Synonyms

  • (lake): meer

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

  1. bread

References

  • Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “pan”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

  1. bread

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pan/

Etymology 1

Noun

pan (Bengali script পান)

  1. tree
  2. firewood

Etymology 2

Classifier

pan- (Bengali script পান)

  1. used with apparatus, appliances, mechanical and electrical things, cars, bikes, bicycles, mortars and umbrellas

References

  • van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bambara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pã˦]

Verb

pan

  1. to fly
  2. to jump

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpan̪]

Noun

pan (Basahan spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

  1. bread (only used for naming)
    Synonym: tinapay

Related terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpan̪]

Noun

pan (Badlit spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

  1. bread
    Synonym: tinapay

Related terms

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish pan (bread).

Noun

pan

  1. bread

Chuukese

Noun

pan

  1. branch (with its leaves)

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَانَ (bāna).

Verb

pan I (present pipán) (intransitive)

  1. to seem
  2. to show up, to appear

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 171

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpan]
  • Hyphenation: pan
  • Homophone: Pan
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

pan m anim

  1. Alternative form of pán

Usage notes

  • This is the form used when followed by a name, title, occupation etc.
    pan NovákMr Novák
    Pane předsedo, dámy a pánové...Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen...
    Vítejte, pane rytíři.Welcome, Sir Knight.
    Kdy přijde pan doktor, sestřičko?When will the doctor come, nurse?

Declension

Further reading

  • pan in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • pan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch panne, from Old Dutch *panna, from Latin panna, contraction of patina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑn/
  • Hyphenation: pan
  • Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

pan f (plural pannen, diminutive pannetje n)

  1. pan, especially for cooking
  2. (Netherlands) cooking pot
    Synonym: pot

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: pan
  • Jersey Dutch: pān
  • Negerhollands: pan
  • Caribbean Javanese: pan
  • Indonesian: panci (from the diminutive)
  • Munsee: pán
  • Papiamentu: panchi, pannetsji, pannetsje (from the diminutive)
  • Sranan Tongo: pan
    • Saramaccan: pánu

Anagrams

  • nap

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑ̃/
  • Homophones: pans, paon, paons, pend, pends

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French pan, from Latin pannus. Doublet of pagne.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. piece, part
    Synonyms: morceau, partie
    c’est un pan à partit's a special part
  2. side, face
  3. flap, lap (of coat)
  4. patch, area, section, sector

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pan

  1. bang! (sound of a gun)
  2. bam!

Further reading

  • “pan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • APN

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. bread

Galician

Alternative forms

  • pão (reintegrationist)
  • pam (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pan, from Latin pānis, pānem. Cognate with Portuguese pão.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaŋ/

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. (uncountable) bread
    • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:
  2. a piece of bread
    Synonym: peza
  3. grain, corn, cereal
  4. (by extension) food

Related terms

  • empanada
  • empanar
  • panadaría
  • panadeiro
  • pantrigo

References

  • “pan” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “pan” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “pan” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “pan” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

  1. bread

Japanese

Romanization

pan

  1. Rōmaji transcription of パン

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

  1. bread

References

  • AEDLL

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paŋː/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

  1. bread

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpãː/, /ˈpaŋ/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

  1. bread

Malay

Noun

pan

  1. grandmother

Mandarin

Romanization

pan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pàn.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English panne.

Noun

pan

  1. Alternative form of pane (pan)

Etymology 2

From Old French pan, from Latin pannus.

Noun

pan

  1. Alternative form of pane (fabric, fur; a portion)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. bread

Derived terms

  • pan cogon

Related terms

  • panier

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pannus.

Noun

pan oblique singularm (oblique plural pans, nominative singular pans, nominative plural pan)

  1. bit; piece; part
  2. (specifically) a piece of armor
    Et de l'hauberc li runpirent les pans
    They broke apart parts of his armor

Derived terms

  • panel

Descendants

  • French: pan
  • Middle English: pane, pan, panne, payn
    • English: pane
      • Japanese: ペイン (pein)
    • Scots: pane, peen
    • Irish: pána

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pan)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pānem. Cognate with Old Spanish pan.

Noun

pan m

  1. bread
    • Aquel ſantome [] nunca carne comia nen pan nen bocado / ſe non q[ua]ndo con cĩjſa Era Meſturado
      That holy man [] never ate a mouthful of meat nor bread / except when it was mixed with ashes

Descendants

  • Fala: pan
  • Galician: pan
  • Portuguese: pão (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

  • Universo Cantigas - "pan"

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъpanъ. First attested in the 13th century. Displaced gospodzin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /paːn/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɒn/

Noun

pan m ? (female equivalent pani or panna)

  1. lord (master of a feudal manor)
  2. ducal or princely official
  3. (more specifically) beaver official (ducal lord or acting official in charge of beavers, the mammal)
    Synonym: bobrownik
  4. dignitary
  5. dignitary of property
  6. (military) cavalry officer
  7. nobleman
  8. (in the plural, law) court officials
  9. lord (one possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler)
  10. title of respect or formality often used with nobility or officials
  11. lord, master (male head of a household, a father or husband)
  12. husband (male member of a marriage)
    Synonym: mąż
  13. Lord (title of God)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Masurian: pán
  • Polish: pan
    • Lithuanian: põnas
    • Yiddish: פּאַן (pan)
  • Silesian: pōn
  • Old East Slavic: панъ (panŭ) (rare, 13ᵗʰ c.)
    • Old Ruthenian: панъ (pan), пань (panʹ) (14ᵗʰ c.)
      • Belarusian: пан (pan)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: пан (pan)
      • Ukrainian: пан (pan)
      • Middle Russian: панъ (pan) (16ᵗʰ c.)
        • Russian: пан (pan)

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “pan”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin panis.

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

  1. bread

Descendants

  • Ladino: pan
  • Spanish: pan (see there for further descendants)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pan.

Noun

pan

  1. bread

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paŋ/

Noun

pan m

  1. bread

Pochutec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Noun

pan

  1. bread

References

  • Boas, Franz (July 1917), “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, issue 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 9–44

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pan/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɒn/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: pan
  • Homophones: Pan, PAN, pan-

Noun

pan m pers (female equivalent pani, abbreviation p. or pp.)

  1. gentleman, man (specific male person, especially one unknown to the speaker)
    Jakiś pan mi pomógł.A certain gentleman helped me.
  2. master, lord (person with power over something)
  3. sir (rich, well-presenting person)
    Synonym: panisko
  4. lord (master of a house)
  5. teacher
    Synonym: nauczyciel
  6. master (owner of a household pet)
  7. Mr, mister (title before a last name)
  8. (Middle Polish) husband (male member of a marriage)
    Synonym: mąż
  9. (Middle Polish) protector
    Synonym: protektor
  10. (Middle Polish) owner
    Synonym: właściciel

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lithuanian: põnas
  • Yiddish: פּאַן (pan)

Pronoun

pan m (feminine pani)

  1. you polite second person m-personal nominative, it takes verbs as third-person sg form
    Coordinate terms: pani, państwo
    Czy mógłby pan zamknąć drzwi?Could you close the door?

Declension

See also

  • Appendix:Polish pronouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pan is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 12 times in essays, 373 times in fiction, and 1417 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1819 times, making it the 22nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • pan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “pan”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “PAN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.11.2009
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 30
  • pan in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • paun (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter)
  • pàn (Sutsilvan)
  • pang (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. (Vallader, uncountable) bread
  2. (Vallader, countable) loaf of bread

Scots

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle pannin, simple past panned, past participle panned)

  1. (slang) break, smash (particularly of windows)
    Eh'm gonnae pan yer windaes in!I'm going to smash your windows!

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

pan

  1. home, homestead, compound, abode, village, country

References

  • Dinka-English Dictionary[15], 2005

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pānem whence English pantry and company. Compare Catalan pa, French pain, Galician pan, Italian pane, Occitan pan, Portuguese pão, Romanian pâine, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (to feed, to graze).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpan/ [ˈpãn]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: pan

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

  1. bread
  2. bun (e.g. the kinds used for a hamburger or hot dog)
  3. (figurative) money, dough
  4. (figurative) work, job

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Chavacano: pan
  • Cebuano: pan
  • Navajo: bááh

Further reading

  • “pan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem. Compare Italian pane and Neapolitan pane.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paŋ/, /pan/

Noun

pan m (plural pani)

  1. bread

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin pānem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑ̃/

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

  1. bread

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis. See also Scottish Gaelic cuin, Latin quando, Proto-Germanic *hwan (when).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pan/
  • Rhymes: -an

Conjunction

pan

  1. when, while
    Synonyms: amser, pryd

Mutation

References

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan (bread).

Noun

pan

  1. bread

Zou

Adjective

pan

  1. thin

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

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