panga

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋɡə/

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From Swahili panga (“machete”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 73:

     Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

From Spanish panga (“motorboat”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

• Pagan, pagan

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋa, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga
• IPA^(key): /paˈŋa/

pangá

1. (anatomy) jaw, jawbone

   Synonym: salang

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga
• IPA^(key): /paˈŋa/

panga

1. framework built on a boat over which the large, thick mat is placed so that it may serve as an awning

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋa/

pánga

1. mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that one one else will cut the tree or work the field

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

panga

1. a forked stick

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw

Probably borrowed from English panga, from New Latin Pangasius, ultimately from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑŋ.ɡaː/
• Hyphenation: pan‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɑŋɡaː

panga m (plural panga's)

1. panga, pangasius, swai; fish of the genus Pangasius, esp. when used as food

   Synonym: pangasius

• pangafilet

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. genitive singular of pank

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

From Swahili panga.

panga f (plural pangadu n)

1. knife

• Mous, Maarten; Qorro, Martha; Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 69

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa.

panga

1. five

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanɡa/ [ˈpãŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: pan‧ga

panga f (plural pangas)

1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
3. (zoology) torpedo scad (Pterogymnus laniarius)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑŋɡɑ/

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panga (n class, plural panga)

1. machete, panga (broad knife)
   • 2019 June 10, “Wanawake wa Kigoma watoroka wakihofia wabakaji Tanzania maarufu 'Teleza' [Kigoma women flee in fear of Tanzanian rapists 'Teleza']”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     'Silaha yao (teleza) kubwa ni kisu na panga.'

     'Their (Teleza's) chief weapons are the knife and the machete.'

• upanga (“sword”)

-panga (infinitive kupanga)

1. to arrange, classify, plan, organize, set up
   • 2018 December 13, “'John Bolton amepewa jukumu la kupanga jinsi ya kuniangamiza' ['John Bolton has been given the job of planning how to destroy me']”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     Bwana Maduro aliwahi kuituhumu Marekani, Colombia na upinzani kwa kupanga njama ya kumuua.

     Mr. Maduro has accused the United States, Colombia, and the opposition of plotting to kill him.

2. to rent