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, 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.

Translations

psychoactive preparation of betel leaf

• Afrikaans: paan
• Assamese: পাণ (pan)
• Bengali: পান (bn) (pan)
• Burmese: ကွမ်းယာ (my) (kwam:ya)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 檳榔／槟榔 (zh-min-nan) (pin-nn̂g)

  Mandarin: 檳榔／槟榔 (zh) (bīngláng)

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• Finnish: paan (fi)
• German: Betelbissen m, Betelpriem m
• 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)
• Odia: ଖିଲିପାନ (khilipanô)
• Persian: تانبول (tânbul), پان (fa) (pân)
• 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

Finnish

Verb

paan

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

Anagrams

• apan, napa

Mangas

Verb

paan

1. to swim

References

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

Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *paen.

Noun

paan

1. bait

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)‎^[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 143

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)‎^[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