panca

panca

1. paw

• panka
• punka

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): /ˈpaŋka̝/

panca f (plural pancas)

1. lever
2. shaft

   Synonyms: lata, temón

3. (informal) sloth

   Synonyms: nugalla, preguiza

• apancar
• pancada

• “paancada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “panca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “panca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “panca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “panca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

panca

1. five

• lima

• Pancasila

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

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

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, pre-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.

panca f (plural pancas)

1. (Andes) dried maize leaf

• “panca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014