panama

panama (plural panamas)

1. Alternative form of Panama (“type of hat”).
   • 1918, Schedules M and N, free list, customs administration and income tax; subject index, page 1515:

     The difference between the two classifications has always been intended to cover unblocked and untrimmed hat bodies, such as panamas, bangkoks, and leghorns, and other hats which are woven by the natives in South American and oriental countries where they are produced.

• Anampa

From English Panama (weave).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnɑmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝nɑ̝mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧na‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧na‧ma

panama

1. Panama weave

• “panama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

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panama m (plural panamas)

1. Panama hat

• “panama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒnɒmɒ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧na‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

Borrowed from German Panama (“financial scandal, bribery”) or from German Panama-Skandal (“Panama scandals”).^[1]

panama (plural panamák)

1. large-scale bribery, embezzlement or fraud, where an official provides an advantage to themselves or an associated person or company, resulting in harm to the public

(sense hat): ellipsis of panamakalap

(sense fabric): Borrowed from German Panama (“loosely woven fabric”).

panama (plural panamák)

1. Panama hat

   Synonym: panamakalap

2. Panama fabric (a loosely woven, light, airy fabric)

• (embezzlement): panama in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (Panama hat): panama in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

panama m (invariable)

1. Panama hat
2. basketweave

   Synonym: nattè

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *panam, from Proto-Tupian.^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní panambi.

• IPA^(key): /pãˈnã.ma/
• Rhymes: -ãma
• Hyphenation: pa‧na‧ma

panama (unpossessable)

1. butterfly

   Synonyms: panapanã, panapanama

• panamoby

• >? Portuguese: panapaná, panapanã

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “panama”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 370, columns 1–2

Borrowed from French panama.

panama f (plural panamale)

1. Panama hat

From Panama, from the 1893 French scandal on the building attempt of the Panama Canal.

panama f (plural panamale)

1. large scale financial fraud