pan

pan

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

• IPA^(key): /pæn/

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• Homophone: panne
• Rhymes: -æn

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ.

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

pan (plural pans)

A pan (1)

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. (slang) A human face, a mug.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:

      "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."

    • 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 92:

      Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.

    • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 103:

      This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].

13. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
14. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
15. (firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

    flash in the pan

    • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pp. 95-96,

      […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]

    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

      And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […]

16. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
17. (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."

18. (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
19. (music) Short for steelpan.
    • 2009, Pnina Werbner, Black and Ethnic Leaderships (page 122)

      The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.

• (flat receptacle): frying pan, skillet, cookie sheet, tin
• (tall receptacle): saucepan
• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

• (expanse of flat land in a depression): salt pan, salt flat, alkali pan

• (expanse of flat land in a depression): flat

• →? Irish: panna
• → Japanese: パン

panned gold

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

   • 1875, William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs

     We […] witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.

2. (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:criticize

   • 2022 May 17, Tiffany Hsu, “All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.

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.

• lavatory (“place where gold is panned”) (obsolete)

From a clipped form of panorama.

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.
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.

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.

• (of a camera): cant, tilt

• pan and scan
• pan out
• panner

• cinema
• cinematography
• portrait
• tripod

pan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of paan

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

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

   • 1963, Grower Talks

     The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots

From Old English. See pane.

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.

Clipping of pansexual.

pan (not comparable)

1. (informal) Pansexual.
   • 2012, Anna Waugh, "Texas got a pansexual legislator", Dallas Voice, Volume 29, Issue 33, 28 December 2012, page 9:

     When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are.

   • 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.

• bi, mono

• -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap

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.

• IPA^(key): /pan/

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pan (plural panne)

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

• (lake): meer

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m

1. bread

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

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread

• IPA^(key): /pan/

pan (Bengali script পান)

1. tree
2. firewood

pan- (Bengali script পান)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [pã˦]

pan

1. to fly
2. to jump

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

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpan̪]

pan

1. bread

   Synonym: tinapay

From Spanish pan (“bread”).

pan

1. bread

pan

1. branch (with its leaves)

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

pan m anim

1. Alternative form of pán

• 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?

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pɑn/

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• Hyphenation: pan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

pan f (plural pannen, diminutive pannetje n)

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

   Synonym: pot

• 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

• nap

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃/

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• Homophones: pans, paon, paons, pend, pends

From Latin pannus. Doublet of pagne.

pan m (plural pans)

1. piece, part

   Synonyms: morceau, partie

   c'est un pan à part ― it's a special part

2. side, face
3. flap, lap (of coat)
4. patch, area, section, sector

Onomatopoeic.

pan

1. bang! (sound of a gun)

   Pan! T'es mort !

   Bang! You're dead!

2. bam!

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

• APN

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m (plural pans)

1. bread

• pão (Reintegrationist)
• pam (Reintegrationist)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋ/

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:

     que façan as paadeiras pan de dineiro que pese seis onças desque for cosido et que seja o dito pan bõo et ben cosido

     the bakers must make bread for a denarius that must weight six ounces once baked and said bread must be good and well baked

2. a piece of bread

   Synonym: peza

3. grain, corn, cereal
   • 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez; P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:

     et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

     and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain

   • 1301, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 52:

     A Eluira, I moyo de pan do nouo, de qual ouueren, e I bacoro

     To Elvira, one modius of grain of the new harvest, whichever they happen to have there, and one piglet

4. (by extension) food

• empanada
• empanar
• panadaría
• panadeiro
• pantrigo

• “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.

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m

1. bread

pan

1. Rōmaji transcription of パン

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m

1. bread

• AEDLL

From Latin pānis, pānem.

• IPA^(key): /paŋː/

pan m (invariable)

1. bread

From Latin pānis, pānem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpãː/, /ˈpaŋ/

pan m (invariable)

1. bread

pan

1. grandmother

pan

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old English panne.

pan

1. Alternative form of pane (“pan”)

From Old French pan, from Latin pannus.

pan

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

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem.

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pan m (plural pans)

1. bread

• pan cogon

• panier

From Latin pannus.

pan m (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

• panel

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pan)

From Latin pānem.

pan m (plural pães)

1. bread
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 95 (facsimile):

     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

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

From Latin panis.

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread
   • c. 1200, Cantar de mio Cid:

     Del agua fezist vino e dela piedra pan,

     Of the water Thou madest wine and of the stone bread,

• Spanish: pan
  • Chavacano: pan
  • → Cebuano: pan
  • → Navajo: bááh
• Ladino: pan

From Spanish pan.

pan

1. bread

From Latin pānis, pānem.

• IPA^(key): /paŋ/

pan m

1. bread

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

pan

1. bread

• Boas, Franz (July 1917), “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, issue 1, DOI:10.1086/463709, JSTOR 1263398, pages 9–44

14th c. Unknown etymology. West Slavic word. Apparently from Proto-Slavic *gъpanъ, which may be of Iranian origin, related to Sanskrit गोपाल (gopāla, “cowherd; king”) and similar formations. Cognate to Old Czech hpan, modern Czech pán and pan, Slovak pán and Lower Sorbian pan.

• IPA^(key): /pan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pan
• Homophone: Pan

pan m pers

1. gentleman, man
2. master, teacher
3. lord
4. Mr, mister

• → Lithuanian: põnas
• → Yiddish: פּאַן‎ (pan)

pan

1. you (polite second person m-personal nominative, it takes verbs as third-person sg form)

   Czy mógłby pan zamknąć drzwi? ― Could you close the door?

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• pan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pan m (plural pans)

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

pan

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

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

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

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

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread

   Para mi desayuno, tomo pan y leche.

   For my breakfast, I have bread and milk.

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /paŋ/, /pan/

pan m (plural pani)

1. bread

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis. See also Scottish Gaelic cuin, Latin quando, Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /pan/
• Rhymes: -an

pan

1. when, while

   Synonyms: amser, pryd

Borrowed from Spanish pan (“bread”).

pan

1. bread

pan

1. thin

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