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paan
English
Alternative forms
- pan
- pawn
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi ??? (p?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??n/
Noun
paan (countable and uncountable, plural paans)
- 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.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 13:
Translations
Anagrams
- APAn, Napa, Pana, apan, napa
Finnish
Verb
paan
- (colloquial) First-person singular indicative present form of panna. (with the meaning 'to put')
Mangas
Verb
paan
- 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
- 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
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faan
English
Alternative forms
- faaan
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From sarcastic intonation?”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæn/
- Rhymes: -æn
- Homophones: fan, fanne
Noun
faan (plural faans)
- (dated, fandom slang, often derogatory) A fan who is more interested in fandom than in the subject of that fandom.
Derived terms
- faanish
- faanishness
- faan fiction
References
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) , “faan”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 55
Anagrams
- Afan, fana
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