pandan

Borrowed from Malay pandan, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of hala via Hawaiian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpændən/

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• Rhymes: -ændən

pandan (countable and uncountable, plural pandans)

1. (countable) A screw pine, screw palms (Pandanus spp.).
2. (uncountable) A traditional Malay food flavouring derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius.
   • 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 17:

     “Like vanilla, but better,” she explains. “It’s fragrant and herbal, like you’re taking a big breath of the forest. I can’t believe white people haven’t learned about pandan yet.”

From Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): /pandan/
• Hyphenation: pan‧dan

pandan

1. an aromatic tropical plant (Pandanus amaryllifolius)
2. food flavour derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius

pandan

1. genitive singular of panda

From French pendant (“during”).

• IPA^(key): /pãdã/

pandan

1. during

From Malay pandan, from Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpandan]
• Hyphenation: pan‧dan

pandan (first-person possessive pandanku, second-person possessive pandanmu, third-person possessive pandannya)

1. screw pine, any plant of the genus Pandanus.

• “pandan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayic *pandan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): /pandan/
• Rhymes: -andan, -dan, -an

pandan (Jawi spelling ڤندن, plural pandan-pandan, informal 1st possessive pandanku, 2nd possessive pandanmu, 3rd possessive pandannya)

1. any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines
2. Pandanus amaryllifolius, an aromatic tropical plant
3. food flavour derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius

• pandan duri / hutan (“Pandanus tectorius”)
• pandan kuning (“Pandanus sanderi”)
• pandan laut (“Pandanus odorifer”)
• pandan wangi (“Pandanus amaryllifolius”)

• Indonesian: pandan
• → Chinese: 斑蘭／斑兰
• → English: pandan

  → Hawaiian: pānakana

  → Russian: пандан (pandan)

• → New Latin: pandanus

  → English: pandanus

  → French: pandanus

  → Translingual: Pandanus

• → Semai: panat

• "pandan" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “pandan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.dan/
• Rhymes: -andan
• Syllabification: pan‧dan
• Homophone: Pandan

pandan m inan

1. pandan, pandanus, screw pine (any plant of the genus Pandanus)

   Synonym: pochutnik

• pandan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pandan in PWN's encyclopedia

pandan

1. definite singular of panda

• padan
• pangdan — obsolete

From Proto-Philippine *paŋdan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋədan, from Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.

• IPA^(key): /panˈdan/, [pɐnˈdan]
• Hyphenation: pan‧dan

pandán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔)

1. any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines

   Synonyms: sabutan, panhakad

• “pandan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*paŋudaN”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary