English Online Dictionary. What means panama? What does panama mean?
English
Noun
panama (plural panamas)
- Alternative form of Panama (“type of hat”)
Anagrams
- Anampa
Finnish
Etymology
From English Panama (weave).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑnɑmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝nɑ̝mɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑnɑmɑ
- Hyphenation(key): pa‧na‧ma
Noun
panama
- Panama weave
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “panama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Pronunciation
Noun
panama m (plural panamas)
- Panama hat
Further reading
- “panama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɒnɒmɒ]
- Hyphenation: pa‧na‧ma
- Rhymes: -mɒ
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Panama (“financial scandal, bribery”) or from German Panama-Skandal (“Panama scandals”).
Noun
panama (plural panamák)
- large-scale bribery, embezzlement or fraud, where an official provides an advantage to themselves or an associated person or company, resulting in harm to the public
Declension
Etymology 2
(sense hat): Ellipsis of panamakalap.
(sense fabric): Borrowed from German Panama (“loosely woven fabric”).
Noun
panama (plural panamák)
- Panama hat
- Synonym: panamakalap
- Panama fabric (a loosely woven, light, airy fabric)
Declension
References
Further reading
- (embezzlement): panama in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- (Panama hat): panama in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Italian
Noun
panama m (invariable)
- Panama hat
- basketweave
- Synonym: nattè
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *panam, from Proto-Tupian.
Cognate with Guaraní panambi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pãˈnã.ma/
- Rhymes: -ãma
- Hyphenation: pa‧na‧ma
Noun
panama (unpossessable)
- butterfly
- Synonyms: panapanã, panapanama
Derived terms
- panamoby
Descendants
- >? Portuguese: panapaná, panapanã
References
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “panama”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 370, columns 1–2
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French panama.
Noun
panama f (plural panamale)
- Panama hat
Declension
Etymology 2
From Panama, from the 1893 French scandal on the building attempt of the Panama Canal.
Noun
panama f (plural panamale)
- large scale financial fraud