panga

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋɡə/

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From Swahili panga (“machete”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 73:

     Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

From Spanish panga (“motorboat”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

• panga panga

• Pagan, pagan

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

• IPA^(key): /paˈŋa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

pangá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜅ)

1. (anatomy) jaw, jawbone

   Synonym: salang

• IPA^(key): /paˈŋa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

pangá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜅ)

1. a framework built on a boat over which the large, thick mat is placed so that it may serve as an awning

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

pánga (Basahan spelling ᜉᜅ)

1. a mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that no one else will cut the tree or work the field

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

panga

1. a forked stick

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah.

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw

Probably borrowed from English panga, from New Latin Pangasius, ultimately from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑŋ.ɡaː/

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• Hyphenation: pan‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɑŋɡaː

panga m (plural panga's)

1. panga, pangasius, swai; fish of the genus Pangasius, especially when used as food

   Synonym: pangasius

• pangafilet

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. genitive singular of pank

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

From Swahili panga.

panga f (plural pangadu n)

1. knife

• Mous, Maarten, Qorro, Martha, Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 69

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋa/
• Rhymes: -aŋa
• Syllabification: pa‧nga

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈŋa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa.

panga

1. five

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanɡa/
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: pan‧ga

panga f (plural pangas)

1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
3. (zoology) torpedo scad (Pterogymnus laniarius)

• “panga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑŋɡɑ/

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panga (n class, plural panga)

1. machete, panga (broad knife)
   • 2019 June 10, “Wanawake wa Kigoma watoroka wakihofia wabakaji Tanzania maarufu 'Teleza' [Kigoma women flee in fear of Tanzanian rapists 'Teleza']”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     'Silaha yao (teleza) kubwa ni kisu na panga.'

     'Their (Teleza's) chief weapons are the knife and the machete.'

• upanga (“sword”)

-panga (infinitive kupanga)

1. to arrange, classify, plan, organize, set up
   • 2018 December 13, “'John Bolton amepewa jukumu la kupanga jinsi ya kuniangamiza' ['John Bolton has been given the job of planning how to destroy me']”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     Bwana Maduro aliwahi kuituhumu Marekani, Colombia na upinzani kwa kupanga njama ya kumuua.

     Mr. Maduro has accused the United States, Colombia, and the opposition of plotting to kill him.

2. to rent
3. to live together, cohabit
4. (with mtoto) to adopt

   Synonym: -asilisha

   • 2017 February 7, “Madona aruhusiwa kupanga watoto 2 kutoka Malawi”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     Madona aruhusiwa kupanga watoto 2 kutoka Malawi

     Madonna is allowed to adopt 2 children from Malawi

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pangia
  • Causative: -pangisha
  • Passive: -pangwa (“to be arranged, to be assigned”), -pangiwa
  • Reciprocal: -pangana
  • Stative: -pangika

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpangaji (“tenant”)
  • mpango (“plan”)
  • pango (“rent”)
  • upangaji (“arranging; renting, rental; adoption”)

pang (“bang”) +‎ -a

panga (present pangar, preterite pangade, supine pangat, imperative panga)

1. (colloquial) to bang (emit bangs, for example by shooting)

   att panga på

   to keep shooting

2. (colloquial) to break (usually a window)

   Han pangade en ruta med en felriktad spark på bollen

   He broke a window with a misaligned kick on the ball

• panga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• panga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• panga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈŋa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pa‧nga

pangá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜅ)

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone

   Synonym: sihang

• ganap, pag- -an, panag-, Gapan

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah.

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *paŋa.

pangá

1. branch (of a tree)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *paŋah.

pangá

1. (anatomy) (lower) jaw