different between pancake vs appam

English

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +? cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn.ke?k/, /?pæ?.ke?k/

Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. A U.S. style thicker batter cake fried in a pan.
3. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
4. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
5. Anything very thin and flat.
   • 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists

     Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

6. Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
   • 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200

     &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.

7. (film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Anagrams

• cakepan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan.k?k/

Noun

pancake m (plural pancakes)

1. pancake

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ponkake, pankake, panne cake

Etymology

From panne (“pan”) +? cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?panka?k(?)/

Noun

pancake

1. pancake (kind of fried cake)

Descendants

• English: pancake
• Scots: pancake

References

• “panne-c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural pancakes)

1. Dated form of panqueca.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil ?????? (appam)

Noun

appam (plural appams)

1. A thin South Asian pancake made from rice flour and coconut

References

• OED 2006

Anagrams

• MAPPA, Pampa, pampa