pani

• pali, pan, panni, pawni

Inherited from Romani pani.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰaːniː], [ˈpʰæːni], [ˈpʰɑːni], [pʰaːniː], [ˈpʰɑni], [ˈpʰaniː], [ˈpɑːnɪ], [ˈpʰæni]

pani

1. water

   Synonyms: mungri, pia

2. brook
3. drink
4. tea
5. pond
6. lake
7. sea

   Synonyms: bawro pani, bori lun pani, lon bori pani

8. rain
9. river

   Synonym: boro pani

10. tears
11. urine

    Synonym: mutter

• “pani”, in Angloromani Dictionary‎^[3], The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 158

pani m

1. (Bugurdži, Crimea, Kosovo Arli, Macedonian Arli, Sepečides, Sofia Erli, Ursari) water

   Synonym: (Crimea) panisi

• paňi (Lotfitka)
• panî (Xaladitka)

pani m

1. (Litovska) water

   Synonym: (Latvia) paaňing

• paani, paaňi (Romungro)
• paj (Burgenland)
• paji, paňi (Gurvari, Hungarian Vend)
• paň (Hungarian Vend)
• páni (Veršend)
• pauňi (Prekmurski)

pani m

1. (Burgenland, East Slovakia, Gurvari) water
2. (East Slovakia) sweat, perspiration
3. (Gurvari) river, lake

Inherited from Romani pani.

• IPA^(key): /pani/

pani

1. water

   Synonym: panina

2. sea

   Synonym: panina baru

• Alexandre Baudrimont (1862) “pani”, in Vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens habitant les pays basques français [Vocabulary of the language of the Roma living in the French Basque Country], Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhou, →OCLC

pani

1. third-person singular past indicative of panema

pani

1. third-person singular past indicative of panna

• apin, pain, pian

pani

1. water

• Ronald L. Trail, Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists (1973), Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 41(4), page 17

pani

1. plural of pano

pani m

1. plural of pane

• Pina, pian, pina

pani

1. Romanization of ꦥꦤꦶ

pani

1. bow (for shooting)
2. knitting tool (shuttle)

pānī

1. dative singular of pānis

From Proto-Oceanic *pani (cognates include Hawaiian poni “to anoint, to daub in oil”, Tongan pani “to smear, to daub in oil; to stain; to cover with oil”, Samoan pani “to dye”, Fijian vani “to oil one's hair [by passing through fingers]”).^[1][2][3]

pani (passive pania)

1. to smear, to spread across
2. to daub
3. to paint
4. to apply (of medicine)
5. to frost (of cakes)

pani

1. paint
2. polish

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pani”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 299
• “pani” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъpanьji. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /pani/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /pani/

pani f (male equivalent pan)

1. (attested in Greater Poland) female equivalent of pan (“lady”) (master of a feudal manor)
   • 1959 [1389], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty poznańskie, volume I, number 63, Poznań:

     Jaco pani szastauila swe dobro i cupila trzeczø czanscz Kuropatnik

     [Jako pani zastawiła swe dobro i kupiła trzecią część Kuropatnik]

2. (attested in Greater Poland) form of respect for non-noblewomen
   • 1858 [c. 1408], Wojciech Szurkowski z Ponieca, “Wyroki sądów miejskich czyli ortyle [Urban court rulings i.e. "Ortyls"]”, in Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski, editor, Historia prawodawstw słowiańskich [History of Slavic lawmaking], volume 6, Poniec, page 69:

     Hannus zalowal na panyą Anną

     [Hannusz żałował na panią Annę]

3. female equivalent of pan (“wife, especially one of a castellan”)
   • 1861 [1398], Pismo poświęcone naukom, sztukom i przemysłowi‎^[4], volume III, Biblioteka Warszawska, page 34:

     Tekdi gdi stala ossada pane bytgostkey hy Paskowa, tedi poslali comornika hy vosnego do paney hy do Paska

     [Tegdy gdy stała osada panie bydgostkiej i Paszkowa, tedy posłali komornika hi woźnego do paniej hi do Paszka]

4. (attested in Lesser Poland) female equivalent of pan (“lady”) (owner of land)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^[5], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 122, 3:

     Yako oczy poselkyney w røkv *pøney (dominae) swogey, tako oczy nasze kv panv bogv

     [Jako oczy posełkiniej w ręku paniej (dominae) swojej, tako oczy nasze ku Panu Bogu]

5. (attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca, Greater Poland) female equivalent of pan (“lady, woman”) (female human)
   • 1415, Przecław Słota, O zachowaniu się przy stole‎^[6], Łęczyca, Poznań, line 74:

     Tako panna yako pany ma to wedecz, czszo szø gany

     [Tako panna jako pani ma to wiedzieć, cso się gani]

• Polish: pani
  • → Belarusian: па́ні (páni)
  • → Russian: па́ни (páni)
  • → Ukrainian: па́ні (páni)
  • → Yiddish: פּאַני (pani)
• Silesian: pani

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “pani”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pani”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pani”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish pani.

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• Rhymes: -aɲi
• Syllabification: pa‧ni
• Homophone: Pani

pani f (male equivalent pan)

1. female equivalent of pan (“woman”) (specific female person, especially one unknown to the speaker)
2. female equivalent of pan (“Mrs; miss”) (title before a last name)
3. female equivalent of pan (“mistress, lady”) (person with power over something)
4. female equivalent of pan (“madam”) (rich, well-presenting person)
5. female equivalent of pan (“lady”) (master of a house)
6. female equivalent of pan (“teacher”)
7. (Middle Polish) female equivalent of pan (“protector”)

   Synonym: protektorka

8. (Middle Polish) female equivalent of pan (“owner”)

   Synonym: właścicielka

9. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) female equivalent of pan (“mother”)

   Synonym: matka

pani f (masculine pan)

1. female equivalent of pan (“you”) (polite second person f nominative, it takes verbs as third-person sg form)

   Coordinate terms: pan, państwo

• pański, twój
• pan
• panna
• państwo
• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• → Belarusian: па́ні (páni)
• → Russian: па́ни (páni)
• → Ukrainian: па́ні (páni)
• → Yiddish: פּאַני (pani)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pani is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 4 times in essays, 102 times in fiction, and 538 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 656 times, making it the 71st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• pani in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pani in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pani”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Paweł Kupiszewski (15.06.2020) “PANI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pani”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pani”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pani”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 34
• pani in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “pani”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 137

• pana (Cuzco-Collao)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.nɪ/

pani

1. (Ayacucho) sister of a man

• • turi
  • wawqi
  • ñaña

   

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀸𑀡𑀻𑀅 (pāṇīa), from Sanskrit पानीय (pānīya).^[1][2][3] Cognates include Gujarati પાણી (pāṇī), Marwari पाणी (pāṇī), Sindhi پَاڻِي (pāṇī).

• IPA^(key): /pa.ˈni/

pani m inan (nominative plural panǎ)

1. water^[2][3][4][5]

   O pani si maj śudro akana.

   The water is colder now.

• baro pani

• Angloromani: pani, pali, pan, panni, pawni
• Caló: pañí
  • → Spanish: pañí
• Erromintxela: pani
• Tavringer Romani: pani
• Traveller Norwegian: pani
• Traveller Scottish: pani
• → Yenish: pani

pani

1. bun

• pane (Logudorese)

From Latin pānis (“bread”).

pani

1. bread

From Latin pānis, pānem (“bread”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpa.nɪ]
• Hyphenation: pà‧ni

pani m (plural pani)

1. bread
   • 1905, Reinhold Rost, The Lord's prayer in five hundred languages, page 135:

     Danni oggi lu nostru pani quotidianu.

     Give us this day our daily bread.

Inherited from Old Polish pani.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -aɲi
• Syllabification: pa‧ni

pani f (male equivalent pōn)

1. female equivalent of pōn (“woman”)

   Synonyms: kobiyta, żyńskŏ

2. formal way of addressing a woman; female equivalent of pōn (“lady”)
3. female equivalent of pōn (“lord, mistress”)

• pani in silling.org

pani m

1. Alternative form of paňi (“water; river, lake”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gъpanьji.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɲi/

pani f (declension pattern of pani, male equivalent pán)

1. lady
2. (not inflected) Mrs or Lady

When following a name, the word pani is not inflected.

• “pani”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

From English funny.

pani

1. funny

Inherited from Romani pani.

pani

1. water
2. river
3. lake
4. brook
5. dew

• “pani” in Norwegian Romani Dictionary.
• “pani” in Tavringens Rakripa: Romanifolkets Ordbok, Landsorganisasjonen for Romanifolket.

pani

1. plural of pan

pani m

1. Lovara form of paj (“water, lake, river”)

pani m

1. water
2. body of water, river, lake, stream, sea

• “pani” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.n̪i/

pani

1. the buttocks

   Synonym: gua

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[7], Pacific linguistics

Borrowed from Romani pani.

pani

1. water

• Lützenhardter - Wörterbuch, page 22
• Christian Efing, Jenisch unter Schaustellern (2004), page 104