panga

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large broad-bladed knife. Africa,East,South-Africa
    — She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.
  2. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially an iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
  3. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.
  4. 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.

词形变化

pangas plural pangas plural pangas plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu [Term?]
Swahili pangabor.
English panga
Borrowed from Swahili panga (“machete”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?].
词源 2
Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Spanish pangabor.
English panga
Borrowed from Spanish panga (“motorboat”).
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