name
Meaning 1
A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Panama
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpænəmɑː/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈpanəmɑː/
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US: /ˈpænəmɑ/
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US: /-mə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpænəmɐː/
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Scotland: /ˈpanəma/
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 N AH0 M AA2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A Panama hat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of Panama (“type of hat”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hat, chapeau, lid
noun
Meaning 5
a republic on the Isthmus of Panama; achieved independence from Colombia in 1903
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Republic of Panama
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Central American country, Central American nation
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Possibly from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, which is barely attested and is now extinct).
Across languages
Translations
101 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Panama — country
- Albanian: Panama — country
- Amharic: ፓናማ (panama) — country
- Arabic: بَنَمَا (banamā) — country
- Arabic: بَنَمَا (banama) — country
- Armenian: Պանամա — country
- Asturian: Panamá — country
- Azerbaijani: Panama — country
- Basque: Panama — country
- Belarusian: Пана́ма (Panáma) — country
- Bengali: পানামা (panama) — country
- Breton: Panama — country
- Bulgarian: Пана́ма (Panáma) — country
- Burmese: ပနားမား (pa.na:ma:) — country
- Catalan: Panamà — country
- Chinese Cantonese: 巴拿馬 /巴拿马 (baa1 naa4 maa5) — country
- Hakka Chinese: 巴拿馬 /巴拿马 (Pâ-nâ-mâ) — country
- Chinese: 巴拿馬 /巴拿马 (zh-min-nan) — country
- Chinese Mandarin: 巴拿馬 /巴拿马 (Bānámǎ) — country
- Corsican: Panamà — country
- Czech: Panama — country
- Danish: Panama — country
- Dhivehi: ޕެނަމާ (penamā) — country
- Dutch: Panama — country
- Esperanto: Panamo — country
- Estonian: Panama — country
- Finnish: Panama — country
- French: Panama — country
- French: Panamá — country
- Galician: Panamá — country
- Georgian: პანამა (ṗanama) — country
- German: Panama — country
- Greek: Παναμάς (Panamás) — country
- Gujarati: પનામા (panāmā) — country
- Hebrew: פָּנָמָה (panama) — country
- Hindi: पनामा (panāmā) — country
- Hungarian: Panama — country
- Icelandic: Panama — country
- Indonesian: Panama — country
- Interlingua: Panama — country
- Irish: Panama — country
- Italian: Panama — country
- Japanese: パナマ — country
- Kalenjin: Panama — country
- Kamba: Panama — country
- Kannada: ಪನಾಮಾ (panāmā) — country
- Kazakh: Панама — country
- Khmer: ប៉ាណាម៉ា (paanaamaa) — country
- Kikuyu: Panama — country
- Korean: 파나마 — country
- Korean: 빠나마 (Ppanama) — country
- Kyrgyz: Панама — country
- Lao: ປານາມາ (pā nā mā) — country
- Latvian: Panama — country
- Lithuanian: Panama — country
- Luhya: Panama — country
- Luo: Panama — country
- Macedonian: Пана́ма (Panáma) — country
- Malay: Panama — country
- Malayalam: പനാമ (panāma) — country
- Maltese: il-Panama — country
- Mongolian: Панам (Panam) — country
- Norman: Panama — country
- Norwegian Bokmål: Panama — country
- Occitan: Panamà — country
- Odia: ପାନାମା (pānāmā) — country
- Ossetian: Панамӕ (Panamæ) — country
- Pashto: پاناما (pānāmā) — country
- Pashto: پانامه (pānāmâ) — country
- Persian: پاناما (pânâmâ) — country
- Polish: Panama — country
- Portuguese: Panamá — country
- Punjabi: ਪਨਾਮਾ (panāmā) — country
- Rarotongan: Panama — country
- Romanian: Panama — country
- Russian: Пана́ма (Panáma) — country
- Serbo-Croatian: Па̀нама — country
- Serbo-Croatian: Pànama — country
- Sinhalese: පැනමාව (pænamāwa) — country
- Slovak: Panama — country
- Slovene: Panama — country
- Spanish: Panamá — country
- Sranan Tongo: Panama — country
- Swahili: Panama — country
- Swedish: Panama — country
- Tagalog: Panama — country
- Tajik: Панама — country
- Tatar: Панама — country
- Telugu: పనామా (panāmā) — country
- Thai: ปานามา (bpaa-naa-maa) — country
- Tibetan: པ་ན་མ (pa na ma) — country
- Turkish: Panama — country
- Turkmen: Panama — country
- Ukrainian: Пана́ма (Panáma) — country
- Urdu: پانامہ (pānāmā) — country
- Urdu: پاناما (pānāmā) — country
- Uyghur: پاناما (panama) — country
- Uzbek: Panama — country
- Vietnamese: Pa-na-ma — country
- Yiddish: פּאַנאַמאַ (panama) — country
- Yoruba: Panama — country
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