pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
form: pen
Etymology: From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain.
Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/ → /panna/ raises questions as -tn- to -nn- is rarely seen in Latin.
The mainstream theory as of now (Friedrich Kluge, Julius Pokorny, Guus Kroonen) suggests that it is from Late Latin panna. But its sparse attestation only in the frontier inscriptions and not widespread in most Romance languages raises doubts among a few scholars (notably Michiel de Vaan), being skeptical about its origin, and open for any interpretations (Oxford English Dictionary).
Vladmir Orel, in his work Albanian Etymological Dictionary, suggests that both Proto-Germanic *pannǭ and Late Latin panna could be from a non-IE Mediterranean substrate word, considering that classical Latin attestations are scarce and distributed in a specific region, and Proto-Germanic loanwords from non-IE substrates often include agricultural terms, seafaring vocabulary, or animal names. Although, this substrate hypothesis is controversial and most scholars remain skeptical about it.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.
Senses: glosses: A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
glosses: The contents of such a receptacle.
glosses: A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
glosses: A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
glosses: A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
synonyms: word: playa lake
extra: a temporary pond or lake in a playa
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
synonyms: word: pipe
extra: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels
examples: text: The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.
ref: 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:
glosses: Strong adverse criticism.
glosses: A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
glosses: The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.
glosses: A bedpan.
examples: text: "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
text: Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.
ref: 1993, William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 92:
text: This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 103:
glosses: A human face, a mug.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
glosses: A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
examples: text: flash in the pan
text: […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]
ref: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pages 95–96:
text: And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
glosses: The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
examples: 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale,
Unto the devil rough and black of hue
Give I thy body and my pan also."
glosses: The brain, seen as one's intellect.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
examples: text: The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.
ref: 2009, Pnina Werbner, Black and Ethnic Leaderships, page 122:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of steelpan.
Synonyms: sense: flat receptacle
word: frying pan
sense: flat receptacle
word: skillet
sense: flat receptacle
word: cookie sheet
sense: flat receptacle
word: tin
sense: tall receptacle
word: saucepan
sense: chamber pot
word: chamber pot
sense: toilet
word: toilet
Hypernyms: sense: expanse of flat land in a depression
word: salt pan
sense: expanse of flat land in a depression
word: salt flat
sense: expanse of flat land in a depression
word: alkali pan
Hyponyms: sense: expanse of flat land in a depression
word: flat
Derived terms: ashpan
ash pan
bakepan
baking pan
bedpan
best thing since sliced pan
brainpan
bratt pan
bread pan
cakepan
calandria pan
cat in the pan
chef's pan
chip pan
claypan
deadpan
dishpan
down the pan
drain pan
dripping pan
dustpan
firepan
flash in the pan
flash pan
floorpan
footpan
frying pan
frypan
go down the pan
hardpan
harnpan
headpan
hotel pan
jelly roll pan
kneepan
loaf pan
maslin pan
milk pan
milkpan
moo goo gai pan
moorpan
muffin pan
oil pan
paella pan
pan bread
panbroil
pancake
pan drop
panfish
pan flute
pan former
pan-fry
panful
pan haggerty
panhandle
Panhead
panhouse
panlike
pan-loaf
panman
pan man
pan-nationalism
pannikin
pannist
panphobic
pan pipe
pan pipes
pan pizza
pan pot
pansmith
panspot
pantile
panware
panwoman
panyard
pattypan
pie pan
pizza pan
ploughpan
plowpan
preserving pan
priming pan
Pullman pan
roasting pan
salt pan
saucepan
saute pan
scalepan
sheet pan
skidpan
skull-pan
skypan
sliced pan
soap pan
solution pan
steelpan
stewpan
swing pan
track pan
warming pan
washpan
weathering pan
workpan