pancake

See also: Pancake and Pan-Cake

English

U.S. style pancakes.

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +‎ cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.keɪk/, /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
3. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
   • 2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling‎^[1] (Usenet):

     have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible.

4. Anything very thin and flat.
   • 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists

     Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

Derived terms

terms derived from pancake (noun)

• flat as a pancake
• pancake landing

• Pancake Day
• pancake tortoise
• scallion pancake

Translations

thin batter cake

• Afrikaans: pannekoek (af)
• Arabic: فَطِيرَة (faṭīra)

  Egyptian Arabic: معمول m (maʕmūl)

• Armenian: յուղաբլիթ (hy) (yuġablitʻ)
• Asturian: frixuelu m
• Bashkir: ҡоймаҡ (qoymaq)
• Belarusian: блін m (blin)
• Bengali: প্যানকেক (pênokek)
• Bulgarian: палачи́нка (bg) f (palačínka)
• Catalan: crep americana f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

  Mandarin: 薄烤餅／薄烤饼 (zh) (bókǎobǐng), 薄烤饼 (zh) (bókǎobǐng), 薄煎餅／薄煎饼 (bójiānbǐng), 薄煎饼 (bójiānbǐng), 鬆餅／松饼 (zh) (sōngbǐng)

• Cornish: krampothen f
• Crimean Tatar: şırlama
• Czech: palačinka (cs) f
• Danish: pandekage (da) c
• Dutch: pannenkoek (nl) m
• Esperanto: patkuko
• Estonian: pannkook (et)
• Faroese: pannukøka f
• Finnish: ohukainen (fi), räiskäle (fi), lätty (fi); pannukakku (fi)
• French: crêpe (fr) f, pancake (fr) m
• Galician: filloa (gl) f, panqueca, panqueique
• Georgian: ბლინი (blini)
• German: Pfannkuchen (de) m, Eierkuchen (de) m, Palatschinken (de) m, Plinse (de) f, Blinse (de) f, Plins m, Flins m
• Greek: τηγανίτα (el) f (tiganíta), τηγανόψωμο (el) n (tiganópsomo)

  Ancient: λάγανον n (láganon)

• Greenlandic: panikaaq, pannakaaq
• Hebrew: פָנקֵייק (he)
• Hindi: पैनकेक (painkek)
• Hungarian: palacsinta (hu)
• Icelandic: pönnukaka (is) f
• Ido: krespo (io)
• Irish: pancóg f
• Italian: frittella (it) f, crespolino m, crespella (it) f
• Japanese: パンケーキ (ja) (pankēki), プリンゼン (burinzen) (from German), ブリヌイ (burinui) (from Russian)
• Kannada: ಪ್ಯಾನ್‍ಕೇಕ್ (pyān‍kēk)
• Korean: 팬케이크 (ko) (paenkeikeu), 블리니 (beullini) (from Russian), 블린 (beullin) (from Russian)
• Latin: laganum n
• Latvian: pankūka f
• Lithuanian: blynas m
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• Low German: Pannekauken (Paderbornisch)
• Luxembourgish: Panech (lb) m, Paangech (lb) m
• Macedonian: палачи́нка f (palačínka)
• Malay: lempeng, penkek
• Malayalam: എത്രനാള് (etranāḷŭ)
• Manx: lurrag m, pannag m
• Maori: panikeke, parai, takakau
• Marathi: पॅन्केक m (pǎnkeka)
• Nauruan: epankeik (na)
• Navajo: abeʼ bee neezmasí
• Nogai: куймак (kuymak)
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pannekake (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pannekake f

• Persian: کرپ (fa) (krep), پنکیک (pankeyk)
• Polish: naleśnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: panqueca (pt) f
• Romanian: clătită (ro) f
• Russian: блин (ru) m (blin), ола́дья (ru) f (oládʹja) (fritter, thick pancake), нали́стник m (nalístnik) (stuffed pancakes, also)
• Scots: pan scone
• Scottish Gaelic: breacag f, caraiceag f, crampag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: палачинка f

  Roman: palačinka (sh) f

• Slovak: palacinka f
• Slovene: palačinka (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: plinc m, blinc m, plins m

• Spanish: hot cake m (Mexico), pancake m (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico), panqueca f (Venezuela), panqueque (es) m (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay), tortita f (Spain), crep (es) f, crepe (es) f, filoa f, hojuela f
• Swedish: pannkaka (sv) c, plätt (sv) c
• Tamil: தோசை (ta) (tōcai)
• Tatar: коймак (tt) (qoymaq)
• Telugu: దోశ (te) (dōśa)
• Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)
• Turkish: krep (tr)
• Ukrainian: млине́ць m (mlynécʹ), оладок (uk) m (oladok), налисник m (nalysnyk)
• Vietnamese: bánh tráng (vi)
• Welsh: crempog m
• West Flemish: pallulle f
• Yiddish: בלינצע m (blintse)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.
   • 2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters:

     Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters […]

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Anagrams

• cakepan

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan.kɛk/

Noun

pancake m (plural pancakes)

1. pancake

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• ponkake, pankake, panne cake

Etymology

From panne (“pan”) +‎ cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpankaːk(ə)/

Noun

pancake

1. pancake (kind of fried cake)

Descendants

• English: pancake
• Scots: pancake

References

• “panne-cāke (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

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Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural s)

1. Dated form of panqueca.