panca

Borrowed from Persian [Term?]

panca

1. paw

• “panca”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• panka
• punka

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panca m (plural pancas)

1. punkah, a type of fan consisting in a screen suspended by the ceiling, as traditionally used in tropical colonies, notably the Indies
2. punkahwallah, a servant (typically a boy) who operates it manually

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

From Old Galician-Portuguese *paanca (cf. the derived term paancada, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin palanca, perhaps from Latin phalanga, from the accusative form of Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log, trunk, body of soldiers, etc.”). Cf. Spanish palanca, English plank, planch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋka/ [ˈpɑŋ.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -aŋka
• Hyphenation: pan‧ca

panca f (plural pancas)

1. lever
2. shaft

   Synonyms: lata, temón

3. (informal) sloth

   Synonyms: nugalla, preguiza

• apancar
• pancada

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “paancada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “panca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “panca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “panca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “panca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “panca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “panca” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Malay panca, from Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpan.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa, -a
• Hyphenation: pan‧ca

panca

1. five

   Synonym: lima

• Pancasila
• pancawarna
• pancarona
• pancasona

• “panca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Lombardic panch, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of banca and banco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: pàn‧ca

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panca f (plural panche)

1. bench
2. pew
3. the part of a stirrup on which a rider puts their foot

• panchetta
• panchina
• pancata

• panca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• panca in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

• panchă (obsolete, 1924-1972)

From Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pánča, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /pant͡ʃə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /pant͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ant͡ʃə, -t͡ʃə, -ə

panca (Jawi spelling ڤنچا)

1. five

   Synonym: lima

• (prefix) panca-

From palanca (“lever”).

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃kɐ
• Hyphenation: pan‧ca

panca f (plural pancas)

1. wooden lever
2. (colloquial) craze, obsession
3. (in the plural) difficulties

• pancada
• espancar

From Quechua p'anqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanka/ [ˈpãŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: pan‧ca

panca f (plural pancas)

1. (Andes) dried maize leaf

• “panca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024