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paan

See also: pa- -an, pään, páa̱n, and pån

English

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Paan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi पान (pān).
Possible doublet of fern via Proto-Indo-European *pornóm.

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Noun

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paan (countable and uncountable, plural paans)

 
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  1. (India) A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. [from 16th c.]
    • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 13:
      ‘I am an Indian, it is an Indian habit to take pan. The Civil Surgeon must put up with it.’
    • 2003, David Abram, Nick Edwards, The Rough Guide to South India, Rough Guides, page 52:
      A paan consists of chopped or shredded nut (always referred to as betel nut, though in fact it comes from the areca palm), wrapped in a leaf (which does come from the betel tree). […] The triangular package thus formed is wedged inside your cheek and chewed slowly, and in the case of chuna and zarda paans, spitting out the juice as you go.
    • 2005, Rashmi Uday Singh, Mumbai by Night, page 142:
      Perched outside Madhavbagh Temple, decorated with antique mirrors, this 100-year-old shop serves up juicy paans, plump with mawa.
    • 2006, M. R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, page 31:
      Preparing a paan is simple. The leaf is first cleaned with water and dried. It is then covered with a thin layer of lime paste. In north India, paan sellers then spread red-coloured syrup (extracted from a native plant) over the lime paste.
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Finnish

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Verb

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paan

  1. (colloquial or dialectal) first-person singular present indicative of panna
    Synonym: panen

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Mangas

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Verb

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paan

  1. to swim

References

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  • Gábor Takács, Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting III: Omotic *p-

Mansaka

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *paen.

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paan

  1. bait

Southeastern Tepehuan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish pan, from Latin pānis.

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paan

  1. bread

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  • R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 143

Totontepec Mixe

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Noun

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paan

  1. metate

References

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  • Schoenhals, Alvin, Schoenhals, Louise C. (1965) Vocabulario mixe de Totontepec: Mixe-castellano, castellano-mixe (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 14)‎[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 77
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