Panda

See also: panda, pānda, and pandã

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Panda (plural Pandas)

1. A South Asian surname.

Translations

Translations

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bengali: পন্ডা (ponḍa) Dutch: Panda m or f (rare) French: please add this translation if you can Hindi: पंडा (hi) (paṇḍā) Odia: ପଣ୍ଡା (or) (paṇḍā) Portuguese: Panda (pt) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Urdu: please add this translation if you can

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpanda]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Panda m (strong, genitive Pandas, plural Pandas)

1. panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

   Synonym: Pandabär

Declension

Declension of Panda [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Panda	die	Pandas
genitive	eines	des	Pandas	der	Pandas
dative	einem	dem	Panda	den	Pandas
accusative	einen	den	Panda	die	Pandas

Further reading

• “Panda” in Duden online

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpan.da]

Etymology 1

From pandō.

Proper noun

Panda m sg (genitive Pandae); first declension

1. a river of Scythia mentioned by Tacitus

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Panda
genitive	Pandae
dative	Pandae
accusative	Pandam
ablative	Pandā
vocative	Panda

Etymology 2

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Empanda

Wikipedia

From Proto-Italic *Patnā, from *patnō (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *pt-ne-h₂-ti, a nasal-infix present made from *peth₂-.

Proper noun

Panda f sg (genitive Pandae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) a Roman goddess, whom Festus identifies as the "goddess of the rustics" and Varro relates as the goddess who provides "bread" and therefore "food"; possibly an epithet of Juno

   Synonym: Empanda

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Panda
genitive	Pandae
dative	Pandae
accusative	Pandam
ablative	Pandā
vocative	Panda

References

• “Panda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Panda”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.