# panela
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish panela.

### Noun

panela (uncountable)
* An unrefined sugar product typical of Central and South America and Mexico, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.
* A white, fresh, and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk similar to Indian paneer.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Alpena, apneal, pænal

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Vulgar Latin panna (“pan”), from the same origin that English pan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈnɛla/ [paˈnɛ.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

### Noun

panela f (plural panelas)
* pan
* frying pan
    Synonyms: tixola, sartaña
* a low basket

#### Related terms

* Panela
* penico

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “panela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “panela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “panela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* panelene

### Noun

panela n
* definite plural of panel

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

panela n
* definite plural of panel

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* panella (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese panela, panella, from Vulgar Latin *pannella, diminutive of the word panna (“frying pan”), from patina, from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). Related to English pan.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /paˈnɛ.lɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /paˈnɛ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /paˈnɛ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɐˈnɛ.lɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
* Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

### Noun

panela f (plural panelas)
* cooking pot
* cooking pan
* clique (small, exclusive group)
    Synonym: panelinha

#### Hyponyms

* tacho
* testo

#### Derived terms

* panelada

### Further reading

* “panela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “panela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From pan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈnela/ [paˈne.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: pa‧ne‧la

### Noun

panela f (plural panelas)
* panela (solid piece of unrefined sugar)
    Synonyms: atado dulce, chancaca, empanizao, papelón, piloncillo, panocha, raspadura, rapadura
* panela (Mexican cheese)

#### Derived terms

* agua de panela
* aguapanela

#### Descendants

* → English: panela
* → Tataltepec Chatino: parelya

### Further reading

* “panela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10