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Appendix:Toki Pona/pan

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Toki Pona

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Glyph origin

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sitelen pona
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sitelen sitelen

Etymology

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Multiple possibilities. Likely from a Romance language (French pain, Italian pane, Portuguese pão, Romanian pâine, Spanish pan). Possibly influenced by Japanese パン (pan, bread), from Portuguese pão (bread). Also from Mandarin  / (fàn, rice, meal). Coined by Sonja Lang as of 2007.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pan/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

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pan

  1. grains, cereal, such as barley, corn, maize, oat, rice, sorghum, wheat
    Hypernym: moku
  2. food made from grains or cereal, such as bread, flour, injera, pasta, porridge
    1. baked goods, such as cake, cookies, pastries
  3. starchy food, such as breadfruit, cassava, potatoes, yam
  4. carbohydrate, carbs

Adjective

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pan

  1. (relational) grains, cereal

Verb

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pan

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to be or turn into grains or cereal