different between paan vs areca

English

Alternative forms

• pan
• pawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (p?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??n/

Noun

paan (countable and uncountable, plural paans)

1. A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. [from 16th c.]
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 13:

     ‘I am an Indian, it is an Indian habit to take pan. The Civil Surgeon must put up with it.’

   • 2003, David Abram, Nick Edwards, The Rough Guide to South India, Rough Guides, page 52,

     A paan consists of chopped or shredded nut (always referred to as betel nut, though in fact it comes from the areca palm), wrapped in a leaf (which does come from the betel tree). […] The triangular package thus formed is wedged inside your cheek and chewed slowly, and in the case of chuna and zarda paans, spitting out the juice as you go.

   • 2005, Rashmi Uday Singh, Mumbai by Night, page 142,

     Perched outside Madhavbagh Temple, decorated with antique mirrors, this 100-year-old shop serves up juicy paans, plump with mawa.

   • 2006, M. R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, page 31,

     Preparing a paan is simple. The leaf is first cleaned with water and dried. It is then covered with a thin layer of lime paste. In north India, paan sellers then spread red-coloured syrup (extracted from a native plant) over the lime paste.

Translations

Anagrams

• APAn, Napa, Pana, apan, napa

Finnish

Verb

paan

1. (colloquial) First-person singular indicative present form of panna. (with the meaning 'to put')

Mangas

Verb

paan

1. to swim

References

• Gábor Takács, Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting III: Omotic *p-

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan, from Latin p?nis.

Noun

paan

1. bread

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)?^[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 143

English

Etymology

Via Portuguese from Malayalam ??????? (a?aykka), itself from Proto-Dravidian *a?-ay-kk?y (“areca nut”).

Noun

areca (plural arecas)

1. Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests.

Derived terms

• areca nut

Translations

See also

• areca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• betel
• paan

References

Anagrams

• Ceará, arace

Portuguese

Etymology

Likely from Malayalam ??????? (a?aykka), itself from Proto-Dravidian *a?aykk?y (“areca nut”).

Noun

areca f (plural arecas)

1. areca; betel palm (Areca catechu, an Asiatic palm)

   Synonym: arequeira

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??eka/, [a??e.ka]

Noun

areca f (plural arecas)

1. areca; betel palm (Areca catechu, an Asiatic palm)

Derived terms

• nuez de areca

Further reading

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