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 and Old 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

   (figuratively, familiar) sloth

   Synonyms: nugalla, preguiza

• apancar
• pancada

• “paancada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “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. (cardinal) five

• lima

Borrowed from Lombardic panch, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.ka/, [ˈpäŋkä]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Stress: pànca
• Hyphenation: pan‧ca

panca f (plural panche)

1. bench
2. pew

• panchina

• (obsolete, pre-1972) panchă
• (Jawi spelling) ڤنچا‎

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. (cardinal) five

• lima / ليم‎

• (prefix) panca-

From palanca (“lever”).

• Hyphenation: pan‧ca

panca f (plural pancas)

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

• pancada

From Quechua p'anqa

panca f (plural pancas)

1. (Andes) dried maize leaf