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• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpændə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDA

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• Homophone: pander (non-rhotic)Category:English terms with homophones#PANDA
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɳɖɑ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDA
• Hyphenation: pan‧da
• Rhymes: -ændəCategory:Rhymes:English/ændə#PANDACategory:Rhymes:English/ændə/2 syllables#PANDA

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panda (plural pandas)Category:English lemmas#PANDACategory:English nouns#PANDACategory:English countable nouns#PANDACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. (now rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#PANDA without a qualifying word) The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: (obsolete) bear cat, (obsolete) cat bear, lesser panda, (archaic) wah

   • 2011, Angela R. Glatston, “Introduction”, in Angela R. Glatston, editor, Red Panda: Biology and Conservation of the First Panda, London; Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     The red panda's history in zoos begins some 40 years after its discovery. The first one to be seen outside of its natural range arrived at London Zoo on 22nd May 1869, [...] On arrival at the zoo, the last surviving panda was given into the care of Abraham Bartlett, the superintendent of the zoo. [...] The feeding instructions that came with the panda said it should be given milk, a little rice and grass each day. [...] Bartlett felt that the suggested diet was not adequate and set out to find what the animal would accept; [...] Unfortunately, although it ate well, this first zoo red panda was not destined for a long life, it died suddenly during the night of 12 December 1869, a little over 6 months after its arrival.

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2. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#PANDA, also attributively) Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”)Category:English ellipses#PANDA. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: mottled bear, (Canada, US) panda bear

3. (BritishCategory:British English#PANDA, law enforcementCategory:en:Law enforcement#PANDA, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#PANDA) Ellipsis of panda car (“a black-and-white police car”)Category:English ellipses#PANDA. [from 20th c.]
   • 1975, Darcus Howe, editor, Race Today, London: Race Today Collective, →OCLC, page 279:

     Before the confrontation, the youth sighted a police personnel carrier, two dog patrol vans, a motorway style car, at least two pandas and one unmarked police car.

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌndə/, /ˈpæn-/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDA

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑndə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PANDACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PANDA
• Rhymes: -ʌndəCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌndə#PANDACategory:Rhymes:English/ʌndə/2 syllables#PANDA
• Hyphenation: pan‧da

Noun

panda (plural pandas)Category:English lemmas#PANDACategory:English nouns#PANDACategory:English countable nouns#PANDACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. (HinduismCategory:en:Hinduism#PANDA) A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. [from 19th c.]
   • 1811–1812, Francis Buchanan, “Religion and Sects”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] W[illiam] J[ames], editor, An Account of the Districts of Bihar and Patna in 1811–1812 […], Patna, Bihar: Published by the Bihar and Orissa Research Society and printed by the Calcutta Oriental Press […], published [1926], →OCLC, book II (Of the People), section II (Of the Hindus), page 380:

     There are therefore in this district no Varna or degraded Brahmans nor are those at all disgraced who officiate in any temple as Pandas.

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   • [1862, “PANDA: PUNDA”, in Edward Balfour, editor, The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, […], Madras, Tamil Nadu: Printed for the editor at the Athenæum Press, Adelphi Press and Union Press, by Messrs. Pharaoh and Co., Gantz Brothers, and Cookson and Co., →OCLC, page 83:

     PANDA: PUNDA. Hind[i] and Beng[ali]. The proprietary or presiding priest of a Hindoo temple of Siva usually though not invariably a Brahman. The office is hereditary, and in some places, as at Benares, the Panda officiates only on particular occasions, the duties of daily worship being performed by inferior priests or Pujaris in his employ. The term is also applied to a priest who is stationary at any particular place or shrine.]

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   • 1879, Mrs. J. C. Murray Aynsley [i.e., Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray Aynsley], chapter XI, in Our Visit to Hindostán, Kashmir, and Ladakh, London: W[illia]m H. Allen & Co., […] publishers to the India Office, →OCLC, page 155:

     The pilgrims are required first to bathe in the Marnikarnika Kund (or tank) near the ghât of that name, taking with them flowers and uncooked rice. [...] [T]hey must make presents to the pandas, who are certain privileged hereditary Brahmins. Whilst the pilgrim is in the water, the pandas repeat some Sanscrit verses; [...]

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   • 1961, Prakash Tandon, chapter 1, in Punjabi Century: 1857–1947, London: Chatto and Windus, →OCLC; republished Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 1973, →ISBN, page 9:

     Whenever there is a death in the family, someone will go to Hardwar to immerse the ashes of the departed. There our family has its own panda, as these priests are called, who at his death is succeeded by his son. He maintains the family records in long, old-fashioned Indian ledgers, covered in red cloth, in which he writes down the length of the page. [...] When I first visited Hardwar I only had to say I was a Tandon from Gujrat, and from a crowd of pandas our priest came forward and reeled off our whole family tree for several generations.

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   • 1994, Jonathan P. Parry, “Shares and Chicanery”, in Death in Banaras (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures; 1988), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Death as a Living), page 108:

     'The mafia-like activities' and 'growing internal competition' of the contemporary panda community are the consequence of an almost complete breakdown of the old configuration. Durable long-term relations between priests and their patrons have been replaced by 'the emergence of a totally impersonal religious market' [...], a controlled trickle of elite donors by a torrent of hoi polloi pilgrims, and the relationship between panda and pilgrim has been replaced by that between panda and agent as the pivot of the system.

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   • 1998, Salabega, “Where Do You Take My Lord”, in Niranjan Mohanty, transl., White Whispers: (Selected Poems of Salabega): Translated from the Oriya Original, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, →ISBN, page 50:

     Many a time, the temple received unkind ravishments from the non-Hindu attackers. [...] The frightened pandas of Puri considered Lord Jagannatha to be the living and loving god, the caretaker of their beings and their country. They had no other option but to hide the Lord from the clutches of the javanas. It is learnt from history and the contemporary literature that the pandas used to carry the Lord to distant hills and mountainous ranges.

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   • 2009, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, London: John Murray, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2009, →ISBN, page 135:

     I may be man of commerce in your eyes, Miss—and in this age of evil, who is not?—but are you aware that eleven generations of my ancestors have been pandas at one of Nabadwip's most famous temples?

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   • 2010, James G. Lochtefeld, “The Hardwar Pandas”, in God’s Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:

     As at most Hindu pilgrimage sites, Hardwar has a group of local brahmins who serve as hereditary pilgrim guides. The most respectful name for them is tirtha purohit (a tirtha "priest'), but the more common name is panda, a short form of pandita ("a learned man"). Pandas arrange for their clients' material and ritual needs, and they also officiate at certain life-cycle ceremonies (samskaras). In return, their clients give them fees and gifts.

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   • 2010 March 9, Rith Basu, “Panda-monium at Kalighat temple”, in The Telegraph‎, Kolkata, West Bengal: ABP Pvt. Ltd., →OCLC:

     Trouble broke out at Kalighat temple on Monday morning after police barred pandas from near the sanctum sanctorum. Angry pandas, some armed with sticks, allegedly assaulted members of the temple committee. [...] Temple sources said the cop crackdown was a knee-jerk reaction to a complaint filed by an NRI [non-resident Indian] woman on Sunday against the pandas.

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• panda petit

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See also

• panda on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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• → English: panda
  • → Japanese: パンダ (panda)
  • → Khmer: ផេនដា (pheendaa)
  • → Korean: 판다 (panda)
  • → Malay: panda
  • → Tagalog: panda
  • → Thai: แพนด้า (pɛn-dâa)

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panda m (plural pandas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#PANDACategory:Portuguese nouns#PANDACategory:Portuguese countable nouns#PANDACategory:Portuguese nouns with irregular gender#PANDACategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. panda

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panda f (plural pandas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#PANDACategory:Portuguese nouns#PANDACategory:Portuguese countable nouns#PANDACategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Portuguese feminine nouns#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. (AngolaCategory:Angolan Portuguese#PANDA) a vessel for liquids

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pandaCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#PANDACategory:Portuguese adjective forms#PANDACategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. feminine singular of pando

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panda f (plural pandas)Category:Spanish lemmas#PANDACategory:Spanish nouns#PANDACategory:Spanish countable nouns#PANDACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Spanish feminine nouns#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

2. (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#PANDA, collectiveCategory:Spanish collective nouns#PANDA) gang, bunch

   una panda de vagos ― a bunch of bumsCategory:Spanish terms with usage examples#PANDA

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panda fCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#PANDACategory:Spanish adjective forms#PANDACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. feminine singular of pando

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panda m (plural pandas)Category:Spanish lemmas#PANDACategory:Spanish nouns#PANDACategory:Spanish countable nouns#PANDACategory:Spanish nouns with irregular gender#PANDACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PANDACategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PANDACategory:Pages with entries#PANDACategory:Pages with 31 entries#PANDA

1. panda

   Synonyms: panda gigante, oso panda

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