pandan

Borrowed from Malay pandan, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of hala via Hawaiian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpændən/

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• Rhymes: -ændən

pandan (countable and uncountable, plural pandans)

1. (countable) A screw pine, screw palms (Pandanus spp.).
2. (uncountable) A traditional Malay food flavouring derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius.
   • 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 17:

     “Like vanilla, but better,” she explains. “It’s fragrant and herbal, like you’re taking a big breath of the forest. I can’t believe white people haven’t learned about pandan yet.”

From Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): /pandan/
• Hyphenation: pan‧dan

pandan

1. an aromatic tropical plant (Pandanus amaryllifolius)
2. food flavour derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius

pandan

1. genitive singular of panda

From French pendant (“during”).

• IPA^(key): /pãdã/

pandan

1. during

From Malay pandan, from Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpandan]
• Hyphenation: pan‧dan

pandan (plural pandan-pandan)

1. screw pine, any plant of the genus Pandanus

• “pandan” 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.

From Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): /pandan/
• Rhymes: -andan, -dan, -an

pandan (Jawi spelling ڤندن, plural pandan-pandan)

1. any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines
2. Pandanus amaryllifolius, an aromatic tropical plant
3. food flavour derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius

• pandan duri / hutan (“Pandanus tectorius”)
• pandan kuning (“Pandanus sanderi”)
• pandan laut (“Pandanus odorifer”)
• pandan wangi (“Pandanus amaryllifolius”)

• Indonesian: pandan
• → Chinese: 斑蘭／斑兰
• → English: pandan

  → Hawaiian: pānakana

  → Russian: пандан (pandan)

• → New Latin: pandanus

  → English: pandanus

  → French: pandanus

  → Translingual: Pandanus

• → Semai: panat
• → Tamil: பாண்டான் (pāṇṭāṉ)

• "pandan" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “pandan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.dan/
• Rhymes: -andan
• Syllabification: pan‧dan
• Homophone: Pandan

pandan m inan

1. pandan, pandanus, screw pine (any plant of the genus Pandanus)

   Synonym: pochutnik

• pandan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pandan in PWN's encyclopedia

pandan

1. definite singular of panda

• padan
• pangdan — obsolete

From Proto-Philippine *paŋdan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋədan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /panˈdan/ [pɐn̪ˈd̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pan‧dan

pandán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔)

1. any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines

   Synonyms: sabutan, panhakad

• “pandan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paŋudaN”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI