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pana

Portuguese, verb

pana is a Portuguese verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does pana mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. um tipo de tecido de algodão, veludo canelado, bombazina 2. instrumento musical de sopro feito com cabaças, próprio dos índios bororos

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How common is pana in Portuguese?

pana appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).