panda

See also: Panda, pānda, and pandã

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WOTD – 5 April 2020

Etymology 1

A red panda (Ailurus fulgens), formerly just known as a “panda” (sense 1).

A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), now colloquially known as a panda (sense 2).

Borrowed from French panda, of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a local name for the red panda recorded in Nepal and Sikkim by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894), an ethnologist, naturalist and the British Resident of Nepal, possibly from Nepali निँगाले (nĩgāle, “relating to a certain species of bamboo”) (the adjectival form of निँगालो (nĩgālo), a variant of निङालो (niṅālo, “Drepanostachyum intermedium, a species of bamboo”)) + a regional Tibetan name for the animal (compare regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya, “messenger”)).

Attributive uses of sense 2 (“a giant panda”) generally refer to that animal’s distinctive black and white coat colour.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpændə/
• (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): /ˈpændə/, [ˈpʰeə̯ndə] ~ [ˈpʰɛə̯ndə]

  • Audio (General American); [ˈpʰɛə̯ndə]:

    (file)

• (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpandə/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈpæːndə/
  • (without /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰæːndə]
  • (/æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰɛːndə] ~ [ˈpʰeːndə]

    • Audio; [ˈpʰɛːndə]:

      (file)

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛndə/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːn.ɖɑː/
• Rhymes: -ændə
• Hyphenation: pan‧da
• Homophone: pander (non-rhotic)

Noun

panda (plural pandas)

1. (now rare without a qualifying word) The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: (obsolete) bear cat, (obsolete) cat bear, lesser panda, (archaic) wah

   • 2011, Angela R. Glatston, “Introduction”, in Angela R. Glatston, editor, Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda, London; Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     The red panda's history in zoos begins some 40 years after its discovery. The first one to be seen outside of its natural range arrived at London Zoo on 22nd May 1869, [...] On arrival at the zoo, the last surviving panda was given into the care of Abraham Bartlett, the superintendent of the zoo. [...] The feeding instructions that came with the panda said it should be given milk, a little rice and grass each day. [...] Bartlett felt that the suggested diet was not adequate and set out to find what the animal would accept; [...] Unfortunately, although it ate well, this first zoo red panda was not destined for a long life, it died suddenly during the night of 12 December 1869, a little over 6 months after its arrival.

2. (colloquial, also attributively) Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”). [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: mottled bear, (Canada, US) panda bear

3. (UK, law enforcement, colloquial) Ellipsis of panda car (“a black-and-white police car”). [from 20th c.]
   • 1975, Darcus Howe, editor, Race Today, London: Race Today Collective, →OCLC, page 279:

     Before the confrontation, the youth sighted a police personnel carrier, two dog patrol vans, a motorway style car, at least two pandas and one unmarked police car.

Coordinate terms

• (collective noun) embarrassment

Derived terms

Terms derived from panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

• dumpster panda, garbage panda, trash panda
• happy panda
• panda ant (Mutillidae spp.)
• panda bond
• panda car
• panda crossing
• panda diplomacy
• panda dolphin
• panda eyes
• panda hugger
• pandalike
• pandamonium
• pygmy giant panda (†Ailuropoda microta)
• reverse panda
• sad panda

Descendants

• → Japanese: パンダ (panda)
• → Khmer: ផេនដា (pheendaa)
• → Korean: 판다 (panda)
• → Malay: panda
• → Tagalog: panda
• → Thai: แพนด้า (pɛn-dâa)

Translations

red panda — see red panda

Ailuropoda melanoleuca — see also giant panda

• Amharic: ፓንዳ (panda)
• Arabic: بَنْدَة f (banda), بانْدا m or f (bāndā)
• Aragonese: panda m
• Armenian: պանդա (hy) (panda)
• Assamese: বৰ পাণ্ডা (bor panda), ডাঙৰ পাণ্ডা (daṅor panda), পাণ্ডা ভালুক (panda bhaluk)
• Belarusian: па́нда f (pánda)
• Bengali: পান্ডা (bn) (panḍa)
• Bulgarian: па́нда f (pánda)
• Catalan: panda (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏥᎾ ᏲᎾ (tsina yona)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熊貓 / 熊猫 (hung⁴ maau¹), 大熊貓 / 大熊猫 (daai⁶ hung⁴ maau¹)

  Mandarin: 熊貓 / 熊猫 (zh) (xióngmāo); 大熊貓 / 大熊猫 (zh) (dàxióngmāo); 貓熊 / 猫熊 (zh) (māoxióng), 大貓熊 / 大猫熊 (zh) (dàmāoxióng)

• Crimean Tatar: panda
• Czech: panda velká f
• Danish: panda (da) m, kæmpepanda c
• Dutch: panda (nl) m, pandabeer (nl) m
• Dzongkha: བྱི་ལི་དོམ (byi li dom)
• Esperanto: pando
• Finnish: isopanda (fi), jättiläispanda (fi), panda (fi), pandakarhu (fi)
• French: panda (fr) m
• Georgian: პანდა (ṗanda), დიდი პანდა (didi ṗanda), ბამბუკის დათვი (bambuḳis datvi)
• German: Panda (de), Pandabär (de) m
• Greek: πάντα (el) n (pánta)
• Hawaiian: hunamāu, pea kina
• Hebrew: פנדה (he) (pánda)
• Hindi: पांडा m (pāṇḍā)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

• Hungarian: panda (hu)
• Icelandic: panda (is) f, pandabjörn m, pandabirna f, bambusbjörn m
• Indonesian: panda
• Irish: ollphanda m, panda m
• Italian: panda (it) m
• Japanese: パンダ (ja) (panda), 熊猫 (ja) (kumaneko), イロワケグマ (irowakeguma), シロクログマ (shirokuroguma)
• Khmer: ខ្លាឃ្មុំភែនដា (klaa kmum pʰɛɛndaa), ខ្លាឃ្មុំផេនដា (khlaa khmum pheendaa), ផេនដា (pheendaa)
• Korean: 판다 (ko) (panda)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: панда f (panda)
• Malay:

  Jawi: ڤندا

  Rumi: panda

• Marathi: पांडा m (pāṇḍā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хулсны баавгай (xulsny baavgai), панда (panda) (popular), малар өтөг (malar ötög) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠦ
  ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠪᠠᠭᠠᠢ (qulusun-ü baɣabaɣai), ᠫᠠᠨᠳᠠ (panda), ᠮᠠᠯᠤᠷ
  ᠥᠲᠡᠭᠡ (malur ötege)

• Nepali: पान्डा (pānḍā)
• Norman: panda m
• Norwegian: panda (no) m, pandabjørn, kjempepanda
• Persian: خرس پاندا (xers-e pândâ), پاندا (fa) (pândâ)
• Polish: panda (pl) f
• Portuguese: panda (pt) m
• Romanian: panda (ro) m, urs panda m
• Russian: па́нда (ru) f (pánda), бамбуковый медведь m (bambukovyj medvedʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: панда f

  Latin: panda (sh) f

• Sherpa: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: panda (sl) f
• Spanish: panda (es) m
• Swedish: panda (sv) c, jättepanda (sv) c, pandabjörn (sv) c
• Tagalog: panda
• Tajik: панда (panda)
• Tamil: பாண்டா (pāṇṭā)
• Thai: แพนด้า (pɛn-dâa), หมีแพนด้า (mǐi-pɛɛn-dâa)
• Tibetan: དོམ་ཁྲ (dom khra)
• Turkish: panda (tr)
• Ukrainian: па́нда f (pánda)
• Urdu: پانڈا m (pāṇḍā)
• Uyghur: مۈشۈكئېيىق (müshük'ëyiq)
• Vietnamese: gấu trúc (vi)
• Yiddish: פּאַנדע f (pande)
• Zhuang: yungzmauh, muimeuz

police car — see police car

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi पंडा (paṇḍā) and Punjabi ਪਾਂਡਾ (pāṇḍā), both from Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “learned, wise; learned man, pundit, scholar, teacher; Hindu Brahmin who has memorized a substantial proportion of the Vedas”). Doublet of pundit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌndə/, /ˈpæn-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndə/
• Rhymes: -ʌndə
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda (plural pandas)

1. (Hinduism) A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. [from 19th c.]
   • 1811–1812, Francis Buchanan, “Religion and Sects”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] W[illiam] J[ames], editor, An Account of the Districts of Bihar and Patna in 1811–1812 […], Patna, Bihar: Published by the Bihar and Orissa Research Society and printed by the Calcutta Oriental Press […], published [1926], →OCLC, book II (Of the People), section II (Of the Hindus), page 380:

     There are therefore in this district no Varna or degraded Brahmans nor are those at all disgraced who officiate in any temple as Pandas.

   • [1862, “PANDA: PUNDA”, in Edward Balfour, editor, The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, […], Madras, Tamil Nadu: Printed for the editor at the Athenæum Press, Adelphi Press and Union Press, by Messrs. Pharaoh and Co., Gantz Brothers, and Cookson and Co., →OCLC, page 83:

     PANDA: PUNDA. Hind[i] and Beng[ali]. The proprietary or presiding priest of a Hindoo temple of Siva usually though not invariably a Brahman. The office is hereditary, and in some places, as at Benares, the Panda officiates only on particular occasions, the duties of daily worship being performed by inferior priests or Pujaris in his employ. The term is also applied to a priest who is stationary at any particular place or shrine.]

   • 1879, Mrs. J. C. Murray Aynsley [i.e., Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray Aynsley], chapter XI, in Our Visit to Hindostán, Kashmir, and Ladakh, London: W[illia]m H. Allen & Co., […] publishers to the India Office, →OCLC, page 155:

     The pilgrims are required first to bathe in the Marnikarnika Kund (or tank) near the ghât of that name, taking with them flowers and uncooked rice. [...] [T]hey must make presents to the pandas, who are certain privileged hereditary Brahmins. Whilst the pilgrim is in the water, the pandas repeat some Sanscrit verses; [...]

   • 1961, Prakash Tandon, chapter 1, in Punjabi Century: 1857–1947, London: Chatto and Windus, →OCLC; republished Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 1973, →ISBN, page 9:

     Whenever there is a death in the family, someone will go to Hardwar to immerse the ashes of the departed. There our family has its own panda, as these priests are called, who at his death is succeeded by his son. He maintains the family records in long, old-fashioned Indian ledgers, covered in red cloth, in which he writes down the length of the page. [...] When I first visited Hardwar I only had to say I was a Tandon from Gujrat, and from a crowd of pandas our priest came forward and reeled off our whole family tree for several generations.

   • 1994, Jonathan P. Parry, “Shares and Chicanery”, in Death in Banaras (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures; 1988), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Death as a Living), page 108:

     'The mafia-like activities' and 'growing internal competition' of the contemporary panda community are the consequence of an almost complete breakdown of the old configuration. Durable long-term relations between priests and their patrons have been replaced by 'the emergence of a totally impersonal religious market' [...], a controlled trickle of elite donors by a torrent of hoi polloi pilgrims, and the relationship between panda and pilgrim has been replaced by that between panda and agent as the pivot of the system.

   • 1998, Salabega, “Where Do You Take My Lord”, in Niranjan Mohanty, transl., White Whispers: (Selected Poems of Salabega): Translated from the Oriya Original, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, →ISBN, page 50:

     Many a time, the temple received unkind ravishments from the non-Hindu attackers. [...] The frightened pandas of Puri considered Lord Jagannatha to be the living and loving god, the caretaker of their beings and their country. They had no other option but to hide the Lord from the clutches of the javanas. It is learnt from history and the contemporary literature that the pandas used to carry the Lord to distant hills and mountainous ranges.

   • 2009, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, London: John Murray, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2009, →ISBN, page 135:

     I may be man of commerce in your eyes, Miss—and in this age of evil, who is not?—but are you aware that eleven generations of my ancestors have been pandas at one of Nabadwip's most famous temples?

   • 2010, James G. Lochtefeld, “The Hardwar Pandas”, in God’s Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:

     As at most Hindu pilgrimage sites, Hardwar has a group of local brahmins who serve as hereditary pilgrim guides. The most respectful name for them is tirtha purohit (a tirtha "priest'), but the more common name is panda, a short form of pandita ("a learned man"). Pandas arrange for their clients' material and ritual needs, and they also officiate at certain life-cycle ceremonies (samskaras). In return, their clients give them fees and gifts.

   • 2010 March 9, Rith Basu, “Panda-monium at Kalighat temple”, in The Telegraph‎^[1], Kolkata, West Bengal: ABP Pvt. Ltd., →OCLC:

     Trouble broke out at Kalighat temple on Monday morning after police barred pandas from near the sanctum sanctorum. Angry pandas, some armed with sticks, allegedly assaulted members of the temple committee. [...] Temple sources said the cop crackdown was a knee-jerk reaction to a complaint filed by an NRI [non-resident Indian] woman on Sunday against the pandas.

Translations

brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple

• Hindi: पंडा (hi) (paṇḍā)
• Polish: pandit m
• Punjabi: ਪਾਂਡਾ (pa) (pāṇḍā)

Further reading

• giant panda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• red panda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• panda (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French panda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpan.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpan.da]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

panda m (plural pandes)

1. panda

   Synonym: panda gegant

Derived terms

• panda petit

Further reading

• “panda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Cebuano

Etymology

English panda, from French panda, of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a form recorded by Brian Houghton Hodgson and possibly ultimately derived from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya), whose usual meaning is "messenger".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/ [ˈpan̪.d̪a]
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

pánda (Badlit spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
2. the red panda (Ailurus fulgens)

Chachi

Noun

panda

1. banana
2. food

References

• The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French panda.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda

1. panda

Declension

Declension of panda

	singular	plural
nominative	panda	pandalar
genitive	pandanıñ	pandalarnıñ
dative	pandağa	pandalarğa
accusative	pandanı	pandalarnı
locative	pandada	pandalarda
ablative	pandadan	pandalardan

References

• “panda”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpanda]

• Audio:

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Noun

panda f

1. panda

Declension

Declension of panda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	panda	pandy
genitive	pandy	pand
dative	pandě	pandám
accusative	pandu	pandy
vocative	pando	pandy
locative	pandě	pandách
instrumental	pandou	pandami

Further reading

• “panda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “panda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

panda c (singular definite pandaen, plural indefinite pandaer)

1. giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

   Synonyms: stor panda, bambusbjørn

2. red panda (Ailurus fulgens)

   Synonyms: lille panda, rød panda, kattebjørn

Inflection

Declension of panda

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	panda	pandaen	pandaer	pandaerne
genitive	pandas	pandaens	pandaers	pandaernes

See also

• panda on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Etymology

Borrowed from French panda, apparently from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑn.daː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda m (plural panda's, diminutive pandaatje n)

1. panda, giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
2. red panda (Ailurus fulgens)

Derived terms

• kleine panda
• pandabeer
• reuzenpanda
• rode panda

Further reading

• panda on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Finnish

Etymology

From French panda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝ndɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑndɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pan‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): pan‧da

Noun

panda

1. panda

   Synonyms: isopanda, jättiläispanda, pandakarhu

Declension

Inflection of panda (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		panda	pandat
genitive		pandan	pandojen
partitive		pandaa	pandoja
illative		pandaan	pandoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		panda	pandat
accusative	nom.	panda	pandat
	gen.	pandan
genitive		pandan	pandojen pandain rare
partitive		pandaa	pandoja
inessive		pandassa	pandoissa
elative		pandasta	pandoista
illative		pandaan	pandoihin
adessive		pandalla	pandoilla
ablative		pandalta	pandoilta
allative		pandalle	pandoille
essive		pandana	pandoina
translative		pandaksi	pandoiksi
abessive		pandatta	pandoitta
instructive		—	pandoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of panda (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pandani pandani accusative nom. pandani pandani gen. pandani genitive pandani pandojeni pandaini rare partitive pandaani pandojani inessive pandassani pandoissani elative pandastani pandoistani illative pandaani pandoihini adessive pandallani pandoillani ablative pandaltani pandoiltani allative pandalleni pandoilleni essive pandanani pandoinani translative pandakseni pandoikseni abessive pandattani pandoittani instructive — — comitative — pandoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pandasi pandasi accusative nom. pandasi pandasi gen. pandasi genitive pandasi pandojesi pandaisi rare partitive pandaasi pandojasi inessive pandassasi pandoissasi elative pandastasi pandoistasi illative pandaasi pandoihisi adessive pandallasi pandoillasi ablative pandaltasi pandoiltasi allative pandallesi pandoillesi essive pandanasi pandoinasi translative pandaksesi pandoiksesi abessive pandattasi pandoittasi instructive — — comitative — pandoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pandamme pandamme accusative nom. pandamme pandamme gen. pandamme genitive pandamme pandojemme pandaimme rare partitive pandaamme pandojamme inessive pandassamme pandoissamme elative pandastamme pandoistamme illative pandaamme pandoihimme adessive pandallamme pandoillamme ablative pandaltamme pandoiltamme allative pandallemme pandoillemme essive pandanamme pandoinamme translative pandaksemme pandoiksemme abessive pandattamme pandoittamme instructive — — comitative — pandoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pandanne pandanne accusative nom. pandanne pandanne gen. pandanne genitive pandanne pandojenne pandainne rare partitive pandaanne pandojanne inessive pandassanne pandoissanne elative pandastanne pandoistanne illative pandaanne pandoihinne adessive pandallanne pandoillanne ablative pandaltanne pandoiltanne allative pandallenne pandoillenne essive pandananne pandoinanne translative pandaksenne pandoiksenne abessive pandattanne pandoittanne instructive — — comitative — pandoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative pandansa pandansa accusative nom. pandansa pandansa gen. pandansa genitive pandansa pandojensa pandainsa rare partitive pandaansa pandojaan pandojansa inessive pandassaan pandassansa pandoissaan pandoissansa elative pandastaan pandastansa pandoistaan pandoistansa illative pandaansa pandoihinsa adessive pandallaan pandallansa pandoillaan pandoillansa ablative pandaltaan pandaltansa pandoiltaan pandoiltansa allative pandalleen pandallensa pandoilleen pandoillensa essive pandanaan pandanansa pandoinaan pandoinansa translative pandakseen pandaksensa pandoikseen pandoiksensa abessive pandattaan pandattansa pandoittaan pandoittansa instructive — — comitative — pandoineen pandoinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• isopanda
• jättiläispanda
• kultapanda
• pandakarhu
• pikkupanda

Further reading

• “panda”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• padan

French

Etymology

Of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a form recorded by Brian Houghton Hodgson and possibly ultimately derived from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya), whose usual meaning is “messenger”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.da/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Agen)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Rhymes: -a

Noun

panda m (plural pandas)

1. panda

Derived terms

• panda éclatant
• panda fuligineux
• panda géant
• panda roux
• petit panda

Descendants

• → English: panda
  • → Japanese: パンダ (panda)
  • → Khmer: ផេនដា (pheendaa)
  • → Korean: 판다 (panda)
  • → Malay: panda
  • → Tagalog: panda
  • → Thai: แพนด้า (pɛn-dâa)

Further reading

• “panda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒndɒ]
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda (plural pandák)

1. panda

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	panda	pandák
accusative	pandát	pandákat
dative	pandának	pandáknak
instrumental	pandával	pandákkal
causal-final	pandáért	pandákért
translative	pandává	pandákká
terminative	pandáig	pandákig
essive-formal	pandaként	pandákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pandában	pandákban
superessive	pandán	pandákon
adessive	pandánál	pandáknál
illative	pandába	pandákba
sublative	pandára	pandákra
allative	pandához	pandákhoz
elative	pandából	pandákból
delative	pandáról	pandákról
ablative	pandától	pandáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	pandáé	pandáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pandáéi	pandákéi

Possessive forms of panda

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pandám	pandáim
2nd person sing.	pandád	pandáid
3rd person sing.	pandája	pandái
1st person plural	pandánk	pandáink
2nd person plural	pandátok	pandáitok
3rd person plural	pandájuk	pandáik

Derived terms

Compound words

• óriáspanda

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from English panda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰanta]
• Rhymes: -anta

Noun

panda f (genitive singular pöndu, nominative plural pöndur)

1. panda

   Synonyms: pandabjörn; (a female bear) pandabirna

Declension

Declension of panda (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	panda	pandan	pöndur	pöndurnar
accusative	pöndu	pönduna	pöndur	pöndurnar
dative	pöndu	pöndunni	pöndum	pöndunum
genitive	pöndu	pöndunnar	panda, pandna	pandanna, pandnanna

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch panda, from French panda, apparently from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/ [ˈpan.da]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: pan‧da

Noun

panda (plural panda-panda)

1. panda, giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Further reading

• “panda”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English panda.

Noun

panda m (genitive singular panda, nominative plural pandaí)

1. panda

Declension

Declension of panda (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative panda pandaí vocative a phanda a phandaí genitive panda pandaí dative panda pandaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an panda na pandaí genitive an phanda na bpandaí dative leis an bpanda don phanda leis na pandaí

Derived terms

• ollphanda m (“giant panda”)
• panda rua m (“red panda”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of panda

radical	lenition	eclipsis
panda	phanda	bpanda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “panda”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “panda”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “panda”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French panda, apparently from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.da/
• Rhymes: -anda
• Hyphenation: pàn‧da

Noun

panda m (invariable)

1. panda, especially the giant panda

Derived terms

• panda gigante
• panda minore

See also

• ailuro

Further reading

• “panda”, in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• “panda” in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Verb

pandā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pandō

Adjective

panda

1. inflection of pandus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

pandā

1. ablative feminine singular of pandus

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pandak.

Verb

panda

1. to put
2. to pile up, to stack
3. to stick in
4. to put on
5. to vaccinate
6. to arrange (hair)
7. to fall (of weather events)

Conjugation

Conjugation of panda (type II-1/tulda, no gradation)
Indicative
Present			Perfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	panen	en pane	1st singular	olen pannu	en ole pannu
2nd singular	paned	ed pane	2nd singular	oled pannu	ed ole pannu
3rd singular	panou	ei pane	3rd singular	on pannu	ei ole pannu
1st plural	panemme	emme pangoi	1st plural	olemme pannu	emme olgoi pannu
2nd plural	panette	ette pangoi	2nd plural	olette pannu	ette olgoi pannu
3rd plural	pandah	ei panda	3rd plural	oldah pandu	ei olda pandu
Imperfect			Pluperfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	panin	en pannu	1st singular	olin pannu	en olnu pannu
2nd singular	panid	ed pannu	2nd singular	olid pannu	ed olnu pannu
3rd singular	pani	ei pannu	3rd singular	oli pannu	ei olnu pannu
1st plural	panimme	emme pandu	1st plural	olimme pannu	emme olnu pannu
2nd plural	panitte	ette pandu	2nd plural	olitte pannu	ette olnu pannu
3rd plural	pandih	ei pandu	3rd plural	oldih pandu	ei oldu pandu
Conditional
Present			Perfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	panižin	en paniž	1st singular	oližin pannu	en oliž pannu
2nd singular	panižid	ed paniž	2nd singular	oližid pannu	ed oliž pannu
3rd singular	paniž	ei paniž	3rd singular	oliž pannu	ei oliž pannu
1st plural	panižimme	emme paniž	1st plural	oližimme pannu	emme oliž pannu
2nd plural	panižitte	ette paniž	2nd plural	oližitte pannu	ette oliž pannu
3rd plural	pandaiž	ei pandaiž	3rd plural	oldaiž pandu	ei oldaiž pandu
Imperfect			Pluperfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	pannuižin	en pannuiž	1st singular	olnuižin pannu	en olnuiž pannu
2nd singular	pannuižid	ed pannuiž	2nd singular	olnuižid pannu	ed olnuiž pannu
3rd singular	pannuiž	ei pannuiž	3rd singular	olnuiž pannu	ei olnuiž pannu
1st plural	pannuižimme	emme pannuiž	1st plural	olnuižimme pannu	emme olnuiž pannu
2nd plural	pannuižitte	ette pannuiž	2nd plural	olnuižitte pannu	ette olnuiž pannu
3rd plural	pandanuiž	ei pandanuiž	3rd plural	oldanuiž pandu	ei oldanuiž pandu
Imperative
Present
	positive	negative
1st singular	—	—
2nd singular	pane	ala pane
3rd singular	pangah	algah pangoi
1st plural	pangam	algam pangoi
2nd plural	pangat	algat pangoi
3rd plural	pandagah	aldagah pangoi
Potential
Present			Perfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	pannen	en panne	1st singular	lienen pannu	en liene pannu
2nd singular	panned	ed panne	2nd singular	liened pannu	ed liene pannu
3rd singular	pannou	ei panne	3rd singular	lienou pannu	ei liene pannu
1st plural	pannemme	emme panne	1st plural	lienemme pannu	emme liekoi pannu
2nd plural	pannette	ette panne	2nd plural	lienette pannu	ette liekoi pannu
3rd plural	pandaneh	ei pandane	3rd plural	lietah pandu	ei liekoi pandu
Nominal forms
Infinitives			Participles
				active	passive
I		panda	present	panij	pandav
II	inessive	pandes	past	pannu	pandu
	essive	panden
III	illative	panemah
	inessive	panemas
	elative	panemaspiä
	adessive	panemal
	abessive	panemata

References

• M. Pahomov (2022), Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[3], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English panda, from French panda.

Pronunciation

• (Literary Standard, schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/ [ˈpan.da]
• Rhymes: -anda, -da, -a
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda (Jawi spelling ڤندا, plural panda-panda)

1. panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Further reading

• "panda" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "panda" at PRPM first version)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English panda.

Noun

panda m (plural pandas)

1. (Jersey) panda

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English panda, French panda, German Panda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: pan‧da
• Homophone: Panda

Noun

panda f

1. giant panda, panda, panda bear (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

   Synonyms: niedźwiedź bambusowy, panda wielka

2. (rare) red panda, lesser panda (Ailurus fulgens)

   Synonyms: panda czerwona, panda mała, panda mniejsza, panda ruda, pandka ruda

3. Fiat Panda car

Declension

Declension of panda

	singular	plural
nominative	panda	pandy
genitive	pandy	pand
dative	pandzie	pandom
accusative	pandę	pandy
instrumental	pandą	pandami
locative	pandzie	pandach
vocative	pando	pandy

Further reading

• “panda”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “panda”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Um panda

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐ̃.dɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐ̃.dɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɐ
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya)der.?

French pandabor.

Portuguese panda

Borrowed from French panda.

Noun

panda m (plural pandas)

1. panda

Derived terms

• panda-gigante
• panda-vermelho
• pandamônio
• pandinha
• urso-panda

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Kimbundu panda (“vessel”).

Noun

panda f (plural pandas)

1. (Angola) a vessel for liquids

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

panda

1. feminine singular of pando

Further reading

• “panda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “panda”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “panda”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “panda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya)der.?

French pandabor.

Romanian panda

Borrowed from French panda.

Noun

panda m (uncountable)

1. panda

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	panda	pandaul
genitive-dative	panda	pandaului
vocative	pandaule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French panda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎːnda/
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

pánda f (Cyrillic spelling па́нда)

1. panda

Declension

Declension of panda

	singular	plural
nominative	pánda	pande
genitive	pande	pándā
dative	pandi	pandama
accusative	pandu	pande
vocative	pando	pande
locative	pandi	pandama
instrumental	pandom	pandama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/ [ˈpãn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: pan‧da

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pandus, from pandō (“to extend, spread out”).

Noun

panda f (plural pandas)

2. (colloquial, collective) gang, bunch

   una panda de vagos ― a bunch of bums

Derived terms

• pandilla

Adjective

panda f

1. feminine singular of pando

Etymology 2

panda

Borrowed from French panda.

Noun

panda m (plural pandas)

1. panda

   Synonyms: panda gigante, oso panda

Derived terms

• oso panda
• panda gigante
• panda menor
• panda rojo

Further reading

• “panda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• panda on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Verb

-panda (infinitive kupanda)

1. to climb, ascend, rise
2. to plant
3. to board (of an aircraft)

   kupanda ndege ― to board a plane

Conjugation

Conjugation of -panda
Positive present -napanda Subjunctive -pande Negative -pandi Imperative singular panda
Infinitives
Positive kupanda Negative kutopanda
Imperatives
Singular panda Plural pandeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hupanda Positive past positive subject concord + -lipanda Negative past negative subject concord + -kupanda
Positive present (positive subject concord + -napanda) Singular Plural 1st person ninapanda/napanda tunapanda 2nd person unapanda mnapanda 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapanda wanapanda other classes positive subject concord + -napanda
Negative present (negative subject concord + -pandi) Singular Plural 1st person sipandi hatupandi 2nd person hupandi hampandi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapandi hawapandi other classes negative subject concord + -pandi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tapanda Negative future negative subject concord + -tapanda
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pande) Singular Plural 1st person nipande tupande 2nd person upande mpande 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apande wapande other classes positive subject concord + -pande
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipande Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepanda Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepanda Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipanda Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipanda
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apanda) Singular Plural 1st person napanda twapanda 2nd person wapanda mwapanda 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apanda wapanda m-mi(III/IV) wapanda yapanda ji-ma(V/VI) lapanda yapanda ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapanda vyapanda n(IX/X) yapanda zapanda u(XI) wapanda see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwapanda pa(XVI) papanda mu(XVIII) mwapanda
Perfect positive subject concord + -mepanda "Already" positive subject concord + -meshapanda "Not yet" negative subject concord + -japanda "If/When" positive subject concord + -kipanda "If not" positive subject concord + -sipopanda Consecutive kapanda / positive subject concord + -kapanda Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapande
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nipanda -tupanda 2nd person -kupanda -wapanda/-kupandeni/-wapandeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpanda -wapanda m-mi(III/IV) -upanda -ipanda ji-ma(V/VI) -lipanda -yapanda ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipanda -vipanda n(IX/X) -ipanda -zipanda u(XI) -upanda see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kupanda pa(XVI) -papanda mu(XVIII) -mupanda Reflexive -jipanda
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -panda- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -pandaye -pandao m-mi(III/IV) -pandao -pandayo ji-ma(V/VI) -pandalo -pandayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -pandacho -pandavyo n(IX/X) -pandayo -pandazo u(XI) -pandao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -pandako pa(XVI) -pandapo mu(XVIII) -pandamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -panda) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yepanda -opanda m-mi(III/IV) -opanda -yopanda ji-ma(V/VI) -lopanda -yopanda ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopanda -vyopanda n(IX/X) -yopanda -zopanda u(XI) -opanda see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kopanda pa(XVI) -popanda mu(XVIII) -mopanda
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pandia
  • Causative: -pandisha
  • Passive: -pandwa
  • Reciprocal: -pandana
  • Stative: -pandika

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpandaji (“climber”)
  • upandaji (“climbing; planting”)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/

Noun

panda c

1. giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

   Synonyms: jättepanda, pandabjörn

2. red panda (Ailurus fulgens)

   Synonyms: kattbjörn, mindre panda, liten panda, röd panda

Declension

Declension of panda

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	panda	pandas
	definite	pandan	pandans
plural	indefinite	pandor	pandors
	definite	pandorna	pandornas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English panda, from French panda, of unclear etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpanda/ [ˈpan̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -anda
• Syllabification: pan‧da

Noun

panda (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. panda

Further reading

• “panda”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• andap

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [panda]

Noun

panda (definite accusative pandayı, plural pandalar)

1. panda

Declension

Declension of panda

	singular	plural
nominative	panda	pandalar
definite accusative	pandayı	pandaları
dative	pandaya	pandalara
locative	pandada	pandalarda
ablative	pandadan	pandalardan
genitive	pandanın	pandaların

Venda

Verb

panda

1. to stamp

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pandak.

Verb

panda

1. to put, place
2. to set
3. to lay
4. to put on
5. to put together

Inflection

Inflection of panda (inflection type 25/purda)
1st infinitive	panda
present indic.	paneb
past indic.	pani
	present indicative	past indicative	imperative
1st singular	panen	panin	—
2nd singular	paned	panid	pane
3rd singular	paneb	pani	pangaha
1st plural	panem	panim	pangam
2nd plural	panet	panit	pangat
3rd plural	pandas paneba	paniba	pangaha
sing. conneg.1	pane	panend	pane
plur. conneg.	pangoi	pannugoi	pangoi
	present conditional	past conditional	potential
1st singular	panižin	pannuižin	pannen
2nd singular	panižid	pannuižid	panned
3rd singular	paniži	pannuiži	panneb
1st plural	panižim	pannuižim	pannem
2nd plural	panižit	pannuižit	pannet
3rd plural	panižiba	pannuižiba	panneba
connegative	paniži	pannuiži	panne
non-finite forms
1st infinitive	panda
2nd infinitive		3rd infinitive
inessive	pandes	inessive	panmas
instructive	panden	illative	panmaha
participles		elative	panmaspäi
present active	panii	adessive	panmal
past active	pannu	abessive	panmat
past passive	pandud
1 In imperative: used only in the second-person singular. The plural form is used with other persons.

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “вкладывать, включать, вставить, выпадать, класть, надеть, назначить, накладывать, подложить, положить, поставить, разложить, расставлять, складывать, сложить, ставить, укладывать, установить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[6], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k͡pá.ŋ́.dā/

Noun

páńda

1. counterfeit

Derived terms

• owó-páńda (“counterfeit money”)