panga

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋɡə/

From Swahili panga (“machete”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 73:

     Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of New Latin Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali [script needed] (pāNāś, “mud-coloured fish”), ultimately from Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “mud”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

From Spanish panga (“motorboat”).

panga (plural pangas)

1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

• Pagan, pagan

• IPA^(key): /pa.ˈŋa/

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone
2. framework built on a boat over which the large, thick mat is placed so that it may serve as an awning

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ŋa/

panga

1. mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that one one else will cut the tree or work the field

• Hyphenation: pa‧nga

panga

1. a forked stick

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw

panga

1. genitive singular of pank

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

panga f (plural pangas)

1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
3. (zoology) torpedo scad (Pterogymnus laniarius)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑŋɡɑ/

panga (n class, plural panga)

1. machete, panga (broad knife)
   • 2019 June 10, “Wanawake wa Kigoma watoroka wakihofia wabakaji Tanzania maarufu 'Teleza' [Kigoma women flee in fear of Tanzanian rapists 'Teleza']”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     'Silaha yao (teleza) kubwa ni kisu na panga.'

     'Their (Teleza's) weapons are a large knife and a machete.'

• upanga

-panga (infinitive kupanga)

1. to arrange, classify, plan, organise, set up
   • 2018 December 13, “John Bolton amepewa jukumu la kupanga jinsi ya kuniangamiza [John Bolton has been given the job of planning how to destroy me]”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     Bwana Maduro aliwahi kuituhumu Marekani, Colombia na upinzani kwa kupanga njama ya kumuua.

     Mr. Maduro has accused the United States, Colombia, and the opposition of plotting to kill him.