You can make 5 words from pan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of pan
pan apn pna npa anp nap
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Definitions and meaning of pan
pan
Translingual
Symbol
pan
(international standards)ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Punjabi.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pæn/
Homophone: panne
Rhymes: -æn
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishpanne, from Old Englishpanne, from Proto-West Germanic*pannā, from Proto-Germanic*pannǭ, from Late Latinpanna, from Latinpatina(“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greekπατάνη(patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek.
Cognate with West Frisianpanne, Saterland FrisianPonne, Dutchpan, German Low GermanPanne, Pann, GermanPfanne, Danishpande, Swedishpanna, Icelandicpanna.
Noun
pan (pluralpansor(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
A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
(especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
(South Africa)Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
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.
A loaf of bread.
(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):SeeThesaurus:chamber pot
(toilet):SeeThesaurus: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 presentpans, present participlepanning, simple past and past participlepanned)
(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
See also
lavatory(“place where gold is panned”)(obsolete)
Etymology 2
From a clipped form of panorama.
Verb
pan (third-person singular simple presentpans, present participlepanning, simple past and past participlepanned)
(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
Translations
See also
cinema
cinematography
portrait
tripod
Noun
pan (pluralpans)
A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
pan (third-person singular simple presentpans, present participlepanning, simple past and past participlepanned)
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 (pluralpans)
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 (pluralpans)
(rail transport, informal)Short for pantograph.
Synonyms
(pantograph):panto
See also
Anagrams
-nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutchpan, from Middle Dutchpanne, from Old Dutch*panna, from Latinpanna, contraction of patina. The sense “lake, pond” is likely borrowed from or influenced by Englishpan.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pan/
Noun
pan (pluralpanne)
pan(receptacle)
lake or pond; pan
Synonyms
(lake):meer
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm
bread
References
Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “pan”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm (pluralpanes)
bread
Atong (India)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pan/
Etymology 1
Noun
pan (Bengali scriptপান)
tree
firewood
Etymology 2
Classifier
pan- (Bengali scriptপান)
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 Spanishpan.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpan̪]
Noun
pan (Basahan spellingᜉᜈ᜔)
bread (only used for naming)
Synonym:tinapay
Related terms
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanishpan.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpan/, [ˈpan̪]
Noun
pan (Badlit spellingᜉᜈ᜔)
bread
Synonym:tinapay
Related terms
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanishpan(“bread”).
Noun
pan
bread
Chuukese
Noun
pan
branch (with its leaves)
Cypriot Arabic
Etymology
From Arabicبَانَ(bāna).
Verb
panI (presentpipán)(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
panm 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
Further reading
pan in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
pan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchpanne, from Old Dutch*panna, from Latinpanna, contraction of patina.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pɑn/
Hyphenation: pan
Rhymes: -ɑn
Noun
panf (pluralpannen, diminutivepannetjen)
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)
→ Munsee: pán
→ Papiamentu: panchi, pannetsji, pannetsje(from the diminutive)
→ Sranan Tongo: pan
→ Saramaccan: pánu
Anagrams
nap
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pɑ̃/
Homophones: pans, paon, paons, pend, pends
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Frenchpan, from Latinpannus. Doublet of pagne.
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
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!
Further reading
“pan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
APN
Friulian
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
bread
Galician
Alternative forms
pão(reintegrationist)
pam(reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguesepan, from Latinpānis, pānem. Cognate with Portuguesepão.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpaŋ/
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
(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
“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.
Istriot
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm
bread
Japanese
Romanization
pan
Rōmaji transcription of パン
Leonese
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm
bread
References
AEDLL
Ligurian
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /paŋː/
Noun
panm (invariable)
bread
Lombard
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpãː/, /ˈpaŋ/
Noun
panm (invariable)
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 Englishpanne.
Noun
pan
Alternative form of pane(“pan”)
Etymology 2
From Old Frenchpan, from Latinpannus.
Noun
pan
Alternative form of pane(“fabric, fur; a portion”)
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitanpan, from Latinpānis, pānem.
Pronunciation
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
bread
Derived terms
pan cogon
Related terms
panier
Old French
Etymology
From Latinpannus.
Noun
panoblique singular, m (oblique pluralpans, nominative singularpans, nominative pluralpan)
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 IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pan)
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latinpānem. Cognate with Old Spanishpan.
Noun
panm
bread
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
Descendants
Fala: pan
Galician: pan
Portuguese: pão (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
Universo Cantigas - "pan"
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*gъpanъ. First attested in the 13th century. Displaced gospodzin.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (10th–15th CE)/paːn/
IPA(key): (15th CE)/pɒn/
Noun
panm ? (female equivalentpaniorpanna)
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
dignitary
dignitary of property
(military) cavalry officer
nobleman
(in the plural, law) court officials
lord (one possessing similar mastery over others; any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler)
title of respect or formality often used with nobility or officials
lord, master (male head of a household, a father or husband)
husband (male member of a marriage)
Synonym:mąż
Lord (title of God)
Derived terms
Descendants
Masurian: pán
Polish: pan
→ Lithuanian: põnas
→ Yiddish: פּאַן(pan)
Silesian: pōn
→ Old East Slavic: панъ(panŭ)(rare, 13ᵗʰ c.)
Old Ruthenian: панъ(pan), пань(panʹ)(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, editor (2011–2015), “pan”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latinpanis.
Noun
panm (pluralpanes)
bread
Descendants
Ladino: pan
Spanish: pan (see there for further descendants)
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanishpan.
Noun
pan
bread
Piedmontese
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /paŋ/
Noun
panm
bread
Pochutec
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanishpan.
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
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
panm (femininepani)
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
See also
Appendix:Polish pronouns
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
Further reading
pan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
pan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pan”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“PAN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.11.2009
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego[16]
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[17]
A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pan”, in Słownik języka polskiego[18] (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 30
pan in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Romansch
Alternative forms
paun(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter)
pàn(Sutsilvan)
pang(Surmiran)
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem.
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
(Vallader, uncountable) bread
(Vallader, countable) loaf of bread
Scots
Verb
pan (third-person singular simple presentpans, present participlepannin, simple pastpanned, past participlepanned)
(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[19], 2005
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latinpānem whence English pantry and company. Compare Catalanpa, Frenchpain, Galicianpan, Italianpane, Occitanpan, Portuguesepão, Romanianpâine, possibly from Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-(“to feed, to graze”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpan/[ˈpãn]
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: pan
Noun
panm (pluralpanes)
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
→ Navajo: bááh
Further reading
“pan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian
Etymology
From Latinpānis, pānem. Compare Italianpane and Neapolitanpane.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /paŋ/, /pan/
Noun
panm (pluralpani)
bread
Walloon
Etymology
From Latinpānem.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pɑ̃/
Noun
panm (pluralpans)
bread
Welsh
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*kʷos, *kʷis. See also Scottish Gaeliccuin, Latinquando, Proto-Germanic*hwan(“when”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pan/
Rhymes: -an
Conjunction
pan
when, while
Synonyms:amser, pryd
Mutation
References
Yogad
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanishpan(“bread”).
Noun
pan
bread
Zou
Adjective
pan
thin
References
Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45