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Toki Pona
Glyph origin
Etymology
Multiple possibilities. Likely from a Romance language (French pain, Italian pane, Portuguese pão, Romanian pâine, Spanish pan). Possibly influenced by Japanese パン (pan, “bread”), from Portuguese pão (“bread”). Also from Mandarin 飯 / 饭 (fàn, “rice, meal”). Coined by Sonja Lang as of 2007.
Pronunciation
Noun
pan
- grains, cereal, such as barley, corn, maize, oat, rice, sorghum, wheat
- Hypernym: moku
- food made from grains or cereal, such as bread, flour, injera, pasta, porridge
- baked goods, such as cake, cookies, pastries
- starchy food, such as breadfruit, cassava, potatoes, yam
- carbohydrate, carbs
Adjective
pan
- (relational) grains, cereal
Verb
pan
- (transitive, intransitive) to be or turn into grains or cereal