"panga" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpaŋɡə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-panga.wav Forms: pangas [plural]
Etymology: From Swahili panga (“machete”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sw|panga||machete}} Swahili panga (“machete”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} panga (plural pangas)
  1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife. Tags: Africa, East, South-Africa Translations (type of knife): panga (Finnish), viidakkoveitsi (Finnish), panga [feminine] (Spanish), panga (Swahili)
    Sense id: en-panga-en-noun-gdWMh29M Categories (other): East African English, South African English, Terms with Swahili translations
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈpaŋɡə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-panga.wav Forms: pangas [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|mul|Pangasius}} translingual Pangasius, {{der|en|bn|পাঙ্গাশ|t=mud- or brown-coloured fish}} Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} 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. Categories (lifeform): Catfish Translations (fish — see also iridescent shark): pangasius (Finnish), haimonni (Finnish), Pangasius [masculine] (German), panga (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-panga-en-noun-dTny8vnf Disambiguation of Catfish: 11 62 19 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 52 4 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 32 64 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 27 56 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 30 65 5 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of 'fish — see also iridescent shark': 96 4
  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.
    Sense id: en-panga-en-noun-5IFuZlMg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈpaŋɡə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-panga.wav Forms: pangas [plural]
Etymology: From Spanish panga (“motorboat”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|panga||motorboat}} Spanish panga (“motorboat”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} panga (plural pangas)
  1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America. Related terms: panga panga
    Sense id: en-panga-en-noun-D6-UPNU8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.