pão

See also: pao, páo, paó, pào, pāo, pǎo, and pa'o

Portuguese

Diversos pães - Different breads

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pan, from Latin pānem, accusative singular form of pānis, possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to feed, graze”). (compare Catalan pa, French pain, Galician pan, Italian pane, Romanian pâine, Spanish pan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃/
• Hyphenation: pão
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃

Noun

pão m (plural pães)

1. bread
2. (figuratively) food, sustenance
3. (colloquial, dated) an attractive and elegant boy

Usage notes

• (attractive boy): It is now considered outdated slang in Brazil, though perfectly understandable.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pão.

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pon
• Kabuverdianu: pom
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: pãw
• Kristang: pang
• Papiamentu: pan
• → Bengali: পাঁউরুটি (pãuruṭi)
• → Burmese: ပေါင်မုန့် (paungmun.) (compounded with မုန့် (mun., “snack”))
• → Gujarati: પાઉં (pāũ)
• → Hindi: पाव (pāv)
• → Japanese: パン (pan) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Korean: 빵 (ppang)
  • → Ainu: パン (pan)
• → Kadiwéu: paon
• → Marathi: पाव (pāv)
• → Thai: ปัง (bpang)
• → Tetum: paun

See also

• casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão