different between panga vs pang

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa???/

Etymology 1

From Swahili panga (“machete”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 73:

     Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of New Latin Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali ??????? (pa?ga?, “mud-coloured fish”), ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka, “mud”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Spanish panga (“motorboat”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

Anagrams

• Pagan, pagan

Bikol Central

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /pa.??a/

Noun

panga

1. framework built on a boat over which the large, thick mat is placed so that it may serve as an awning

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?pa.?a/

Noun

panga

1. mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that one one else will cut the tree or work the field

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa?nga

Noun

panga

1. a forked stick

Cuyunon

Noun

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English panga, from New Latin Pangasius, ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.?a?/
• Hyphenation: pan?ga
• Rhymes: -???a?

Noun

panga m (plural panga's)

1. panga, pangasius, swai; fish of the genus Pangasius, esp. when used as food

   Synonym: pangasius

Derived terms

• pangafilet

Estonian

Noun

panga

1. genitive singular of pank

Ibaloi

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Kankanaey

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Karao

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Kayapa Kallahan

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Spanish

Noun

panga f (plural pangas)

1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
3. (zoology) torpedo scad (Pterogymnus laniarius)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????/

Etymology 1

Noun

panga (n class, plural panga)

1. machete, panga (broad knife)

Related terms

• upanga

Etymology 2

Verb

-panga (infinitive kupanga)

1. to arrange, classify, plan, organize, set up

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pangia
  • Causative: -pangisha
  • Passive: -pangwa (“to be arranged, to be assigned”), -pangiwa
  • Reciprocal: -pangana
  • Stative: -pangika

Tagalog

Noun

pangá

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone

Yogad

Noun

pangá

1. branch (of a tree)
2. (anatomy) (lower) jaw

English

Etymology 1

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, pr?nge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?ng, IPA^(key): /pæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

pang (plural pangs)

1. (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
2. (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.

Derived terms

• birth pangs
• hunger pangs
• pang of conscience

Translations

Verb

pang (third-person singular simple present pangs, present participle panging, simple past and past participle panged)

1. (transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

Translations

References

Further reading

• pang in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Verb

pang

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of ping

Estonian

Noun

pang (genitive pange, partitive pange)

1. bucket

   Synonym: ämber

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• pang in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p???]
• Rhymes: -???

Verb

pang

1. (intransitive, chiefly in the third person) to stagnate, to be in stasis (e.g. of business or bodily circulation)

   Synonyms: stagnál, megreked, tesped

Conjugation

The infinitive is more common in the form pangani.

Derived terms

• pangás
• pangó

Further reading

• pang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Javanese

Noun

pang

1. branch

Ludian

Noun

pang

1. handle

Mandarin

Romanization

pang

1. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of páng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pàng.

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.

Min Nan

Romansch

Alternative forms

• paun (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter)
• pàn (Sutsilvan)
• pan (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

Noun

pang m

1. (Surmiran) bread

Noun

pang m (plural pangs)

1. (Surmiran) loaf of bread

Swedish

Interjection

pang

1. bang (verbal percussive sound)

Noun

pang n

1. bang, explosion
   • 1887, August Strindberg, Hemsöborna

     när plötsligen det hördes ett pang! utanför på gården och rasslet av glasskärvor.

     when suddenly they heard a bang! outside in the yard and the sound of broken glass.

2. (colloquial, dated) pension house, hotel; Contraction of pensionat.

Usage notes

• The Swedish translation of John Cleese's Fawlty Towers (1975), "Pang i bygget" (1979) is a pun based on both definitions.

Declension

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pa?/

Prefix

pang

1. Adjective prefix (an action or a practice associated with the thing or action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?babae (“woman”) ? ?pang-babae (“for women only”)

2. instrumentative case of the noun (a tool or an instrument that is used to perform the action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?takip (“a cover”) ? ?pangtakip (“an instrument used to cover something”)

Veps

Noun

pang

1. handle