Phrase guide

frying pan

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

name

Meaning 1

A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a pan used for frying foods

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: frypan, skillet

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pan, cooking pan

Narrower terms: electric frying pan, spider

History

Etymology

From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying + pan.

Across languages

Translations

151 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abaza: таба (taba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Afrikaans: braaipan — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Afrikaans: eierpan — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Albanian: fërterë — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Albanian: tigan — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Arabic: مِقْلَاة (miqlāh) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Arabic: طاسة (ṭāsa) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Arabic: مقلة (migḷa) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Arabic: طاوة (ṭāwa) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Arabic: مقلة (maqla) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܩܠܝܵܐ (maqlyā) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܵܐ (tāwā) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Armenian: թավա (tʻava) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Old Armenian: տապակ (tapak) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Asturian: payella — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Azerbaijani: tava — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Bashkir: таба (taba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Basque: zartagin — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Belarusian: патэ́льня (patélʹnja) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Belarusian: скаварада́ (skavaradá) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Bengali: ভাজার চাটু (bhajar caṭu) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Bengali: ফ্রাইং প্যান (phraiṅ pên) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Central Bikol: kawali — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Bulgarian: тига́н (tigán) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Catalan: paella — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 平底鍋 /平底锅 (píngdǐguō) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煎鍋 /煎锅 (jiānguō) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Chukchi: выръэпатъёлгын (vyrʺėpatʺjolgyn) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • East Circassian: табэ (tabɛ) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • West Circassian: табэ (tabɛ) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Czech: pánev — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Danish: stegepande — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Dargwa: тава (tava) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Dutch: koekenpan — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Erzya: пачалго (pačalgo) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Esperanto: pato — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Esperanto: fritilo — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Estonian: praepann — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Estonian: pann — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Finnish: paistinpannu — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • French: poêle — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • French: poêle à frire — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • French: esquilette — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Galician: tixola — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Galician: tixela — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Galician: panela — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Galician: frixideira — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Galician: sartaña — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Georgian: ტაფა (ṭapa) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Old Georgian: ტაპაკი (ṭaṗaḳi) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • German: Bratpfanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • German: Pfanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • German: Pfane — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Greek: τηγάνι (tigáni) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ancient Greek: τάγηνον (tágēnon) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Hebrew: מַחֲבַת (makhavát) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Hindi: कड़ाही (kaṛāhī) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Hindi: कड़ाहा (kaṛāhā) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Hindi: तवा (tavā) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Hungarian: serpenyő — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Icelandic: steikarpanna — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ido: padelo — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ingrian: reehtila — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Italian: padella — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Italian: tegame — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Japanese: フライパン (furaipan) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Karelian: riehtilä — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Kazakh: таба (taba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Korean: 프라이팬 (peuraipaen) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Korean: 후라이팬 (huraipaen) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Central Kurdish: تاوە (tawe) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Northern Kurdish: tave — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Northern Kurdish: tavik — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Kyrgyz: таба (taba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ladino: sarten — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Latin: sartāgō — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Latvian: panna — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Lithuanian: keptuvė — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Lower Tanana: beyi ch'et'adhi — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Macanese: falânpám — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Macedonian: тава (tava) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Macedonian: тиган (tigan) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Maltese: taġen — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Māori: raupane — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Māori: parai — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Mingrelian: ტაფე (ṭape) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Mòcheno: pfònn — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Mongolian: хайруулын таваг (xajruulyn tavag) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Khiamniungan Naga: chài — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Navajo: tseeʼé — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Neapolitan: sartana — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norman: câssetrole — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norman: pêle — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stekepanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norwegian Bokmål: steikepanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: steikepanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: steikjepanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Occitan: padèla — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Occitan: sartan — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Old English: brǣdepanne — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Persian: تابه (tâbe) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Persian: ماهیتابه (mâhitâbe) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Polabian: šopo — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Polish: patelnia — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Portuguese: frigideira — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Portuguese: sertã — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Quechua: payla — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Romanian: tigaie — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Romanian: cratiță — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Russian: сковорода́ (skovorodá) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Russian: сковоро́дка (skovoródka) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Samogitian: petėlnė — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Sanskrit: कटाह (kaṭāha) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgeileid — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Scottish Gaelic: aghann — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Serbo-Croatian: тигањ — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Serbo-Croatian: тава — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Serbo-Croatian: tiganj — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Serbo-Croatian: tava — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Slovak: panvica — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Slovene: ponev — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Southern Altai: сковорода (skovoroda) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Spanish: sartén — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Svan: ტაფა̈ (ṭapä) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Swedish: stekpanna — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Swedish: stekplåt — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Tagalog: kawali — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Tajik: тоба (toba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Taos: púeloną — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Tatar: таба (taba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Thai: กระทะ (grà-tá) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Tibetan: ཚལ་སླང — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Turkish: tava — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ottoman Turkish: تاوه (tava) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ottoman Turkish: طغان (tığan) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ukrainian: сковорода́ (skovorodá) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ukrainian: пате́льня (patélʹnja) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Ukrainian: сковорі́дка (skovorídka) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Urdu: کڑاہی (kaṛāhī) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Urdu: توا (tavā) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Urdu: تابہ (tâba) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Uzbek: tova — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Vietnamese: chảo — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Vietnamese: xanh — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Volapük: loetamapaäl — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Walloon: paile — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Walloon: payele — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Welsh: padell ffrio — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Yakut: хобордоох (qobordooq) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Yiddish: סקאָווראָדע (skovrode) — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
  • Yup'ik: eskuulutaq — long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food