pan

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

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Translingual

Symbol

pan

(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)

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
The contents of such a receptacle.
A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
(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.
(geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
(geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
Strong adverse criticism.
(chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf. [from 1970s]
(obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
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.
(slang) A human face, a mug.
(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
flash in the pan
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
(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."
(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(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)

(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
Coordinate term: sluice
(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criticize
(intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
(transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.

Translations

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)

(intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
(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.
(intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
(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
pannable

Translations

Noun

pan (plural pans)

A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

Derived terms

whip pan

Etymology 3

Noun

pan (uncountable)

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)

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)

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

Etymology 6

Clipping of pansexual or panromantic.

Adjective

pan (not comparable)

(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)

(rail transport, informal) Short for pantograph.

Synonyms

(pantograph): panto

References

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)

pan (receptacle)
lake or pond; pan

Synonyms

(lake): meer

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

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)

bread

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pan/

Etymology 1

Noun

pan (Bengali script পান)

tree
firewood

Etymology 2

Classifier

pan- (Bengali script পান)

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

to fly
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)

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)

bread
Synonym: tinapay

Related terms

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish pan (“bread”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpãn]

Noun

pan

bread

Chuukese

Noun

pan

branch (with its leaves)

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَانَ (bāna).

Verb

pan I (present pipán) (intransitive)

to seem
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

Alternative form of pán

Usage notes

This is the form used when followed by a name, title, occupation etc.
pan Novák ― Mr 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

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)

pan, especially for cooking
(Netherlands) cooking pot
Synonym: pot

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pānis.

Noun

pan m (plural pans) (ORB, broad)

bread

References

pain in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
pan in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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)

piece, part
Synonyms: morceau, partie

c’est un pan à part ― it's a special part
side, face
flap, lap (of coat)
patch, area, section, sector

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pan

bang! (sound of a gun)
bam!

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

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)

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

Related terms

empanada
empanar
panadaría
panadeiro
pantrigo

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“pan” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pan”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pan”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

bread

Japanese

Romanization

pan

Rōmaji transcription of パン

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

bread

References

AEDLL

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paŋː/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

bread

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpãː/, /ˈpaŋ/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

bread

Maguindanao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Pronunciation

(Standard Maguindanaon) IPA^(key): /ˈpan/ [ˈpaɳ]
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: pan

Noun

pan

bread

Malay

Noun

pan

grandmother

Mandarin

Romanization

pan

Nonstandard spelling of pān.
Nonstandard spelling of pán.
Nonstandard spelling of pǎn.
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

Alternative form of pane (“pan”)

Etymology 2

From Old French pan, from Latin pannus.

Noun

pan

Alternative form of pane (“fabric, fur; a portion”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

bread

Derived terms

pan cogon

Related terms

panier

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pannus.

Noun

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

bit; piece; part
(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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pan)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

pam, pã

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pānem. Cognate with Old Spanish pan.

Noun

pan m (plural pães)

bread
(metonymically) wheat; cereals
Synonym: triigo

Descendants

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

References

Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “pan”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pan”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pan m pers (female equivalent pani or panna)

(attested in Greater Poland) lord (master of a feudal manor)
ducal or princely official
(more specifically) beaver official (ducal lord or acting official in charge of beavers, the mammal)
Synonym: bobrownik
(attested in Lesser Poland, Silesia) dignitary
dignitary of property
(military) cavalry officer
(attested in Greater Poland) nobleman
(in the plural, law, attested in Greater Poland) court officials
(attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) lord (one possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler)
(attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) title of respect or formality often used with nobility or officials
(attested in Greater Poland) lord, master (male head of a household, a father or husband)
husband (male member of a marriage)
Synonym: mąż
(attested in Lesser Poland) Lord (title of God)

Derived terms

Descendants

Polish: pan
- → Lithuanian: põnas
- → Yiddish: פּאַן (pan)
Silesian: pōn
→ Old East Slavic: панъ (panŭ) (13ᵗʰ c.)
- Old Ruthenian: панъ (pan) (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, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pan”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pānis.

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

bread

Descendants

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pan.

Noun

pan

bread

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paŋ/

Noun

pan m

bread

Pochutec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Noun

pan

bread

References

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

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pan.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: pan
Homophones: Pan, PAN, pan-

Noun

pan m pers (female equivalent pani, diminutive panek, augmentative panisko, abbreviation p. or pp.)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Lithuanian: põnas
→ Yiddish: פּאַן (pan)

Pronoun

pan m (feminine pani)

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

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

(Vallader, uncountable) bread
(Vallader, countable) loaf of bread

Scots

Verb

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

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

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

pan

home, homestead, compound, abode, village, country

References

Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[21], 2005

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish pan, 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)

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Chavacano: pan
→ Cebuano: pan
→ Maguindanao: pan
→ Navajo: bááh

Venetan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paŋ/, /pan/

Noun

pan m (plural pani)

bread

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin pānem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɑ̃/

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

bread

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷani, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis (interrogative pronoun). Cognate with Cornish pan (“when”, conjunction) Breton pa (“when”, conjunction), and Scottish Gaelic cuin (“when?”). Compare also Latin quando (“when?”), Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when?”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pan/
Rhymes: -an

Conjunction

pan

when, while
Synonyms: amser, pryd

Mutation

References

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish pan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [paŋ]

Noun

pan

bread

References

Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 216: “All nasal phonemes occur syllable finally but not in word-final position, except for the nasal velar allophone [ŋ] of the phoneme /n/ which appears word-finally in lexical items borrowed from Spanish (paŋ 'bread', […] ).”

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan (“bread”).

Noun

pan

bread

Zou

Adjective

pan

thin

References

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

pan

pan

Translingual

Symbol

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

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Etymology 2

Verb

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Noun

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Etymology 3

Noun

Etymology 4

Verb

Etymology 5

Noun

Etymology 6

Adjective

Coordinate terms

Etymology 7

Noun

Synonyms

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References

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Aragonese

Etymology

Noun

References

Asturian

Etymology

Noun

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Classifier

References

Bambara

Pronunciation

Verb

References

Bikol Central

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Chavacano

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Chuukese

Noun

Cypriot Arabic