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panga

panga

English

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

  1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
    • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 77:
      She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 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!’
Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of New Latin Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali [script needed] (pāNāś, mud-coloured fish), ultimately from Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, mud).

Noun

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.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Spanish panga (motorboat).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

  1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

Anagrams


Bikol Central

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /pa.ˈŋa/

Noun

panga

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

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.ŋa/

Noun

panga

  1. mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that one one else will cut the tree or work the field

Estonian

Noun

panga

  1. Genitive singular form of pank.

Spanish

Noun

panga f (plural pangas)

  1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
  2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑŋɡɑ/

Noun

panga (n class, plural panga)

  1. machete, panga (broad knife)

Tagalog

Noun

panga

  1. jaw; jawbone