panela

Borrowed from Spanish panela.

panela (uncountable)

1. An unrefined sugar product typical of Central and South America and Mexico, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.
2. A white, fresh, and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk similar to Indian paneer.

• Alpena, apneal, pænal

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Vulgar Latin panna (“pan”), from the same origin that English pan.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /paˈnɛla/ [paˈnɛ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

panela f (plural panelas)

1. pan
2. frying pan

   Synonyms: tixola, sartaña

3. a low basket

• Panela
• penico

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “panela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “panela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “panela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• panelene

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

• panella (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese panela, panella, from Vulgar Latin *pannella, diminutive of the word panna (“frying pan”), from patina, from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). Related to English pan.

• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

panela f (plural panelas)

1. cooking pot
2. cooking pan
3. clique (small, exclusive group)

   Synonym: panelinha

• tacho
• testo

• panelada

• “panela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “panela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From pan.

• IPA^(key): /paˈnela/ [paˈne.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: pa‧ne‧la

panela f (plural panelas)

1. panela (solid piece of unrefined sugar)

   Synonyms: atado dulce, chancaca, empanizao, papelón, piloncillo, panocha, raspadura, rapadura

2. panela (Mexican cheese)

• → English: panela
• → Tataltepec Chatino: parelya

• “panela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28