pan

pan
Pronunciation	/pan/ 🔊 🔊
Usage	2023: Core (99% ↗︎ )2022: Core (98%)
Book and era	nimi pu
Part of speech	Content word
Codepoint	󱥋 U+F194B

pan is a content word relating to grains, tubers, and starchy foods, as well as their derivatives, such as baked and fermented goods.

Etymology

The word pan is derived from Romance pan and Japanese パン (Hepburn: pan), both ultimately from Latin pānis.

Semantic space

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The Classic Word List attests an extension of pan to mean "life"

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The semantic space of pan includes starchy foods and those full of carbohydrates, such as grains, tubers and their derivatives. Some examples include wheat, barley, rice, sorghum, potatoes, cassava, yams, bread, noodles, pastries, and sandwiches.

pu

In the "Official Toki Pona Dictionary" section, the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good defines pan as:

NOUN  cereal, grain; barley, corn, oat, rice, wheat; bread, pasta

ku

For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as pan:

bread⁵81–100% of respondents, grain⁵81–100% of respondents, wheat⁴61–80% of respondents, rice³41–60% of respondents, corn²21–40% of respondents, carbohydrate²21–40% of respondents

sitelen pona

Barley grains

The sitelen pona glyph for pan (󱥋) possibly represents a staple crop, such as barley grains.

sitelen sitelen

The sitelen sitelen glyph for pan (panpan) depicts a baguette as viewed from above, with three scores across the crust.

See also

• moku
• kili

Further reading

• "pan" on lipu Linku
• "pan" on lipu Wikipesija
• "pan" on English Wiktionary