Pan in Scrabble Dictionary

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Definitions and meaning of pan

pan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæn/
• Homophone: panne
• Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

pan (plural pans)

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.
    • 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. The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
    • 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 […]
16. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
17. (figuratively) 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.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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

Hypernyms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• →? Irish: panna

Translations

Verb

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).
   • 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 criticise severely.
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.
5. (informal) To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)

Coordinate terms

• (wash in mining): sluice

Translations

See also

• (place to pan for gold): lavatory

Etymology 2

From a clipped form of panorama.

Verb

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.
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 terms

• (of a camera): cant, tilt

Derived terms

• pan and scan
• pan out
• panner

Translations

See also

• cinema
• cinematography
• portrait
• tripod

Etymology 3

Noun

pan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of paan

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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 5

From Old English. See pane.

Noun

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 6

Clipping of pansexual.

Adjective

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 terms

• bi, mono

Anagrams

• -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, anp, nap

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/

Noun

pan (plural panne)

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

Synonyms

• (lake): meer

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

1. bread

References

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

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread

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Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/

Etymology 1

Noun

pan (Bengali script পান)

1. tree
2. firewood

Etymology 2

Classifier

pan- (Bengali script পান)

1. 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.

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Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pã˦]

Verb

pan

1. to fly
2. to jump

References

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish pan (“bread”), from Latin pānis, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to feed, to graze”).

Noun

pan

1. bread

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish pan (“bread”).

Noun

pan

1. bread

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Chuukese

Noun

pan

1. branch (with its leaves)

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Czech

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pan

1. Alternative form of pán

Usage notes

• This is the form used when followed by a name, title, occupation etc.

Declension

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑn/
• Hyphenation: pan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Noun

pan f (plural pannen, diminutive pannetje n)

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

   Synonym: pot

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pan
• Jersey Dutch: pān
• Negerhollands: pan
• → Indonesian: panci (from the diminutive)
• → Papiamentu: panchi, pannetsji, pannetsje (from the diminutive)

Anagrams

• nap

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃/
• Homophones: pans, paon, paons, pend, pends

Etymology 1

From Latin pannus. Doublet of pagne.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

1. piece, part

   Synonyms: morceau, partie

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

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pan

1. bang! (sound of a gun)

2. bam!

Anagrams

• APN

Further reading

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

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

1. bread

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Galician

Alternative forms

• pão (Reintegrationist)
• pam (Reintegrationist)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋ/

Noun

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 terms

• empanada
• empanar
• panadaría
• panadeiro
• pantrigo

References

• “pan” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “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.

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

1. bread

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Japanese

Romanization

pan

1. Rōmaji transcription of パン

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Leonese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m

1. bread

References

• AEDLL

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Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paŋː/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

1. bread

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Lombard

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpãː/, /ˈpaŋ/

Noun

pan m (invariable)

1. bread

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Malay

Noun

pan

1. grandmother

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Mandarin

Romanization

pan

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

Usage notes

• 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.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English panne.

Noun

pan

1. Alternative form of pane (“pan”)

Etymology 2

From Old French pan, from Latin pannus.

Noun

pan

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

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

1. bread

Derived terms

• pan cogon

Related terms

• panier

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin pannus.

Noun

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

References

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

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pānem, accusative singular form of pānis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpã/

Noun

pan m (plural pães)

1. 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)

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin panis.

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread

Descendants

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

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pan

Noun

pan

1. bread

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paŋ/

Noun

pan m

1. bread

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Pochutec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan.

Noun

pan

1. bread

References

• 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

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Polish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pan

Noun

pan m pers

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

Declension

Pronoun

pan

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

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) pański, wspaniały
• (nouns) panek, pani f, panicz m pers, panisko n, panna f, państwo n
• (verbs) panoszyć się, panować

Descendants

• → Belarusian: пан (pan)
• → Lithuanian: põnas
• → Russian: пан (pan)
• → Ukrainian: пан (pan)
• → Yiddish: פּאַן‎ (pan)

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading

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

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pan m (plural panes)

1. bread

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

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Venetian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paŋ/, /pan/

Noun

pan m (plural pani)

1. bread

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Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan/
• Rhymes: -an

Conjunction

pan

1. when, while

   Synonyms: amser, pryd

Mutation

References

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Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan (“bread”).

Noun

pan

1. bread

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Zou

Adjective

pan

1. thin

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org

• to criticize harshly.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)