Wiktionary

pan

See also: pan- and Appendix:Variations of "pan"

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

pan

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

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

NounEdit

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,[1]
      […] 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. (figuratively) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
  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.
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
  • (expanse of flat land in a depression): flat
HypernymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
DescendantsEdit
  • →? Irish: panna
  • → Japanese: パン
TranslationsEdit
flat vessel used for cooking — See also translations at frying pan
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VerbEdit

 
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.
  3. (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[2], 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.
  4. (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
  5. (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit
  • lavatory (“place where gold is panned”) (obsolete)

Etymology 2Edit

From a clipped form of panorama.

VerbEdit

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[3], 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. (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 termsEdit
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Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

pan (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of paan

Etymology 4Edit

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

VerbEdit

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

Etymology 5Edit

From Old English. See pane.

NounEdit

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 6Edit

Clipping of pansexual.

AdjectiveEdit

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.
Coordinate termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan (plural panne)

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

SynonymsEdit

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m

  1. bread

ReferencesEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m (plural panes)

  1. bread

Atong (India)Edit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

pan (Bengali script পান)

  1. tree
  2. firewood

Etymology 2Edit

ClassifierEdit

pan- (Bengali script পান)

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

ReferencesEdit

BambaraEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

pan

  1. to fly
  2. to jump

ReferencesEdit

CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan

  1. bread
    Synonym: tinapay

ChavacanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish pan (“bread”).

NounEdit

pan

  1. bread

ChuukeseEdit

NounEdit

pan

  1. branch (with its leaves)

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

pan m anim

  1. Alternative form of pán

Usage notesEdit

  • 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?

DeclensionEdit

Declension
singular plural
nominative pan páni
genitive pana pánů
dative panu pánům
accusative pana pány
vocative pane páni
locative panu pánech
instrumental panem pány

Further readingEdit

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

DutchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan f (plural pannen, diminutive pannetje n)

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

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin pannus. Doublet of pagne.

NounEdit

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

Etymology 2Edit

Onomatopoeic.

InterjectionEdit

pan

  1. bang! (sound of a gun)
    Pan! T'es mort !
    Bang! You're dead!
  2. bam!

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m (plural pans)

  1. bread

GalicianEdit

 
Galician bread

Alternative formsEdit

  • pão (Reintegrationist)
  • pam (Reintegrationist)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “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.

IstriotEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m

  1. bread

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

pan

  1. Rōmaji transcription of パン

LeoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m

  1. bread

ReferencesEdit

LigurianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m (invariable)

  1. bread

LombardEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m (invariable)

  1. bread

MalayEdit

NounEdit

pan

  1. grandmother

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

pan

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

Usage notesEdit

  • 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.

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English panne.

NounEdit

pan

  1. Alternative form of pane (“pan”)

Etymology 2Edit

From Old French pan, from Latin pannus.

NounEdit

pan

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

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m (plural pans)

  1. bread

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pannus.

NounEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

Old PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānem.

NounEdit

pan m (plural pães)

  1. bread

DescendantsEdit

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

Old SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin panis.

NounEdit

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,

DescendantsEdit

PapiamentuEdit

 

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish pan.

NounEdit

pan

  1. bread

PiedmonteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m

  1. bread

PochutecEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

NounEdit

pan

  1. bread

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m pers

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pan
singular plural
nominative pan panowie
genitive pana panów
dative panu panom
accusative pana panów
instrumental panem panami
locative panu panach
vocative panie panowie

Derived termsEdit

adjectives
adverb
nouns
verb

DescendantsEdit

PronounEdit

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?

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pan
singular plural
nominative pan panowie
genitive pana panów
dative panu panom
accusative pana panów
instrumental panem panami
locative panu panach
vocative panie panowie

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

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

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pānis, pānem.

NounEdit

pan m (plural pans)

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

SpanishEdit

 
Pan
 
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EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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. (figuratively) money, dough
  4. (figuratively) work, job

HyponymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

VenetianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pan m (plural pani)

  1. bread

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

pan

  1. when, while
    Synonyms: amser, pryd

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pan ban mhan phan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

YogadEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish pan (“bread”).

NounEdit

pan

  1. bread

ZouEdit

AdjectiveEdit

pan

  1. thin

ReferencesEdit

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