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phan

English

Etymology 1

From Thai ??? (paan).

Noun

phan (plural phans)

  1. An ornamental tray with a pedestal, common in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.

Etymology 2

Noun

phan (plural phans)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Phan (fan of the band Phish)

Anagrams

  • PANH

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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)

  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

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