パン

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See also: バン and Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Ainu

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese パン, from Portuguese pão (“bread”), from Latin pānem, accusative singular form of pānis (“bread”). Compare French pain, Italian pane, Romanian pâine, Spanish pan.

Noun

パン • (pan)

  1. bread

References

  • John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎, Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co.

Japanese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
麵麭 (rare)
麺麭 (rare)
麺𮮆 (rare)
麺包 (rare)
麪包 (rare)

From Portuguese pão (“bread”), from Latin pānem, accusative singular form of pānis (“bread”). Compare French pain, Italian pane, Romanian pâine, Spanish pan.

Noun

パン • (pan) 

  1. bread, pastries, any baked good with a crust (a type of food)
Usage notes
  • The kanji spellings 麺麭, 麺包, and 麪包 are examples of jukujikun. Use of these spellings is extremely rare in modern Japanese.
  • While usually translated as 'bread', the term also covers a wide variety of baked goods that would not be called bread in English. This includes bread-like sweets like brioche, filled puff pastries and similar items, as well as various Asian steamed dough dumplings.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Ainu: パン (pan)
  • → Amis: epang
  • → Bunun: paang
  • → Hakka: 麭／𮮆 (pháng)
  • → Korean: 빵 (ppang)
  • → Min Nan: 麭／𮮆 (pháng)
  • → Paiwan: pang
  • → Rukai: pange
  • → Saaroa: pangʉ

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pan.

Noun

パン • (pan) 

  1. a pan (flat vessel used for cooking)
  2. a pan shot (a film shot where the camera is turned horizontally)
Derived terms
Derived terms

Verb

パンする • (pan suru) suru (stem パンし (pansuru shi), past パンした (pansuru shita))

  1. to pan (to turn a camera horizontally)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "パンする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") パンし pan shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") パンし pan shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") パンする pan suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") パンする pan suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") パンすれ pan sure
Meireikei ("imperative") パンせよ¹
パンしろ² 		pan seyo¹
pan shiro²
Key constructions
Passive パンされる pan sareru
Causative パンさせる
パンさす 		pan saseru
pan sasu
Potential パンできる pan dekiru
Volitional パンしよう pan shiyō
Negative パンしない pan shinai
Negative continuative パンせず pan sezu
Formal パンします pan shimasu
Perfective パンした pan shita
Conjunctive パンして pan shite
Hypothetical conditional パンすれば pan sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

パン • (Pan) 

  1. (Greek mythology) Pan
  2. (astronomy) Pan
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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