panela

panela

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish panela.

Noun

panela (uncountable)

1. An unrefined sugar product typical of Central and South America and Mexico, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.
2. A white, fresh, and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk similar to Indian paneer.

Translations

unrefined sugar product

Catalan: panela f French: pain de vesou m Spanish: panela (es) f, (Mexico) piloncillo m Vietnamese: đường mía thô, đường thô, đường phên

Anagrams

• Alpena, apneal, pænal

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Vulgar Latin panna (“pan”), from the same origin that English pan.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈnɛla̝/

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. pan
2. frying pan

   Synonyms: tixola, sartaña

3. a low basket

Related terms

• Panela
• penico

References

• “panela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “panela” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “panela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “panela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “panela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• panelene

Noun

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

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Portuguese

panela

Alternative forms

• panella (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese panela, panella, from Vulgar Latin *pannella, diminutive of the word panna (“frying pan”), from patina, from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈnɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈnɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈnɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈnɛ.lɐ/

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. cooking pot
2. cooking pan

Coordinate terms

• tacho
• testo

Further reading

• panela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Spanish

Etymology

From pan.

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. panela (solid piece of unrefined sugar)

   Synonyms: atado dulce, chancaca, empanizao, papelón, piloncillo, panocha, raspadura, rapadura

2. panela (Mexican cheese)

Derived terms

• aguapanela

Descendants

• → English: panela
• → Tataltepec Chatino: parelya

Further reading

• “panela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014