paan

paan

See also: pään, páa̱n, and pån

English

Paan

Alternative forms

• pan, pawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi पान (pān). Doublet of fern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːn/

Noun

paan (countable and uncountable, plural paans)

1. 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 2005, p. 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.

Translations

psychoactive preparation of betel leaf

Assamese: পাণ (pan) Bengali: পান (bn) (pan) Burmese: ကွမ်းယာ (my) (kwam:ya) Chinese: Mandarin: 檳榔 (zh) (bīngláng) Min Nan: 檳榔 (zh-min-nan) (pin-nn̂g) Danish: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: paan (fi) Hindi: पान (hi) (pān), बीड़ा (hi) (bīṛā) Indonesian: menginang (id), menyiri Kannada: ತಾಂಬೂಲ (kn) (tāmbūla) Khmer: ស្លាថ្មាត់ (slaa thmat), ស្លាជីប (slaa ciip) Lao: ໝາກ (māk) Malay: bersirih, menginang Malayalam: മുറുക്കാൻ (ml) (muṟukkāṉ) Marathi: विडा (viḍā) Nepali: पान (pān) Oriya: ଖିଲିପାନ (khilipanô) Persian: تانبول‎ (tāmbul), پان‎ (pān) Portuguese: paan m Punjabi: ਪਾਨ m (pān) Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠘ (fan) Tagalog: hitso, mam-in, nganga (tl) Tamil: தாம்பூலம் (ta) (tāmpūlam) Telugu: తాంబూలము (te) (tāmbūlamu) Thai: หมาก (th) (màak) Vietnamese: trầu (vi)

Anagrams

• APAn, Napa, Pana, apan, napa

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Finnish

Verb

paan

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present indicative of panna (with the meaning 'to put')

Anagrams

• apan, napa

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Mangas

Verb

paan

1. to swim

References

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

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Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *paen.

Noun

paan

1. bait

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Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pan, from Latin pānis.

Noun

paan

1. bread

References

• 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)‎ (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 143

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Totontepec Mixe

Noun

paan

1. metate

References

• Schoenhals, Alvin; Schoenhals, Louise C. (1965) Vocabulario mixe de Totontepec: Mixe-castellano, castellano-mixe (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 14)‎ (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