pecan

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• /piːˈkɑːn/ most common US pronunciation except in New York, New England and coastal Southeast
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• Midwestern-US: /pɪˈkɑːn/
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• /ˈpiːkæn/ New York, New England, coastal southeastern Southern US
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• /ˈpiːkɑːn/ chiefly Upper Midwestern US
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• /ˈpɪkæn/ uncommon coastal New England variant
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• /pəˈkɔːn/
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• Louisiana: /pɪˈkɔːn/
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• /pəˈkɑːn/ occasional US unstressed pronunciation
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• UK: /pɪˈkɑːn/
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• Australian, Canada, UK: /ˈpiːkæn/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian, Canada, New-Zealand, US, rare: /piːˈkæn/
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• /pɪˈkæn/ UK, Canada, very rarely US
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• Australian, New-Zealand, UK: /ˈpiːkən/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada: /pəˈkɒn/
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• CMU ARPABET: P AH0 K AA1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P IY1 K AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 3: P IH0 K AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French pacane and at first spelt paccan. The French word derives from an Algonquian word, perhaps Miami (Illinois) pakani. Compare Cree pakan (“hard nut”), Ojibwe bagaan, Abenaki pagann, bagôn, pagôn (“nut; walnut, hazelnut”).

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَقَّان (baqqān) — tree
• Catalan: pacaner — tree
• Finnish: pekaanipähkinäpuu — tree
• French: pacanier — tree
• German: Pekannussbaum — tree
• Irish: crann cnó peacáin — tree
• Japanese: ペカン (pekan) — tree
• Korean: 피칸 (pikan) — tree
• Polish: pekan — tree
• Polish: orzesznik jadalny — tree
• Portuguese: nogueira-pecã — tree
• Russian: пека́н (pekán) — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: пекан — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: pekan — tree
• Slovene: pekan — tree
• Slovene: pekanov oreh — tree
• Spanish: pacano — tree
• Spanish: pecán — tree
• Spanish: pacana — tree
• Spanish: pecano — tree
• Spanish: pecana — tree
• Spanish: pacanero — tree
• Swahili: mpekani — tree
• Swedish: pekanhickory — tree
• Turkish: pekan ağacı — tree
• Ukrainian: горі́х-пека́н (horíx-pekán) — tree
• Ukrainian: оли́вковий горі́х (olývkovyj horíx) — tree
• Welsh: coeden becan — tree
• Alabama: ochahobaski — nut
• Arabic: بَقَّان (baqqān) — nut
• Arabic: بِيكَان (bīkān) — nut
• Catalan: pacana — nut
• Cherokee: ᏐᎯ ᎠᏂᏅᎯᏓ (sohi aninvhida) — nut
• Chinese Mandarin: 美國山核桃 /美国山核桃 (Měiguó shānhétao) — nut
• Chinese Mandarin: 碧根果 (bìgēnguǒ) — nut
• Danish: pekannød — nut
• Dutch: pecannoot — nut
• Esperanto: pekano — nut
• Finnish: pekaanipähkinä — nut
• French: noix de pécan — nut
• French: pacane — nut
• German: Pekannuss — nut
• Greek: πεκάν (pekán) — nut
• Icelandic: pekanhneta — nut
• Irish: cnó peacáin — nut
• Japanese: ピーカンナッツ (pīkan nattsu) — nut
• Japanese: ペカンナッツ (pekan nattsu) — nut
• Korean: 피칸 (pikan) — nut
• Norwegian: pecannøtt — nut
• Polish: pekan — nut
• Portuguese: pecã — nut
• Russian: пека́н (pekán) — nut
• Serbo-Croatian: пекан — nut
• Serbo-Croatian: pekan — nut
• Slovene: pekan — nut
• Slovene: pekanov oreh — nut
• Spanish: nuez pecana — nut
• Spanish: pecana — nut
• Spanish: pacana — nut
• Spanish: pecán — nut
• Spanish: nuez de la isla — nut
• Spanish: nuez encarcelada — nut
• Swahili: pekani — nut
• Swedish: pekannöt — nut
• Turkish: pekan cevizi — nut
• Ukrainian: горі́х-пека́н (horíx-pekán) — nut
• Unami: kansèm — nut
• Welsh: pecan — nut