panela

English

panela (sense 1)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish panela.

Noun

panela (uncountable)

1. An unrefined sugar product typical of Latin America, which is basically a solid piece of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane.
2. A white, fresh, and smooth Mexican cheese of pasteurized cow's milk similar to Indian paneer.

Translations

unrefined sugar product

• Catalan: panela f
• French: pain de vesou m
• Portuguese: rapadura (pt) f
• Spanish: panela (es) f, (Mexico) piloncillo m
• Vietnamese: đường mía thô, đường thô, đường phên

Anagrams

• Alpena, apneal, pænal

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Vulgar Latin panna (“pan”), from the same origin that English pan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈnɛla/ [paˈnɛ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. pan
2. frying pan

   Synonyms: tixola, sartaña

3. a low basket

Related terms

• Panela
• penico

References

• “panela”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “panela”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “panela”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “panela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “panela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “panela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• panelene

Noun

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

panela n

1. definite plural of panel

Portuguese

panela

Alternative forms

• panella (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor.

Latin patina?

Late Latin panna

Vulgar Latin *pannella

Old Galician-Portuguese panela

Portuguese panela

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese panela, from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Late Latin panna, possibly from Latin patina (“frying pan”). Related to English pan. Cognate with Sicilian panneḍḍa.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈnɛ.lɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈnɛ.lɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧ne‧la

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. cooking pot
2. cooking pan
3. clique (small, exclusive group)

   Synonym: panelinha

4. (slang) buttocks

   Synonym: bunda

Hyponyms

• tacho
• testo

Derived terms

• panelada
• panelaço
• paneleiro

Descendants

• → Língua Geral Amazônica: pandera

Further reading

• “panela”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “panela”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “panela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From pan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈnela/ [paˈne.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: pa‧ne‧la

Noun

panela f (plural panelas)

1. panela (solid piece of unrefined sugar)

   Synonyms: atado dulce, chancaca, empanizao, papelón, piloncillo, panocha, raspadura, rapadura

2. panela (Mexican cheese)

Derived terms

• agua de panela
• aguapanela

Descendants

• → English: panela
• → Tataltepec Chatino: parelya

Further reading

• “panela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026