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

• pagan, Pagan

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