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panas

panas is the alternative form of ponhaws.

Meaning of ponhaws

Noun

ponhaws (uncountable)

  1. (US, regional) Synonym of scrapple (“dish of pork scraps”).
    • Ponhaws and any of the other warm breakfast foods combined with it makes an ideal morning meal for cold weather.1951, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 22, page 18
    Synonyms:
    scrapple

Proper noun capitalized: Panas

Panas (plural Panases)

  1. A surname.

Forms of panas

pluralPanases

Origin of panas

Various origins: * Borrowed from Greek Πανάς (Panás), a reduced form of the personal name Panagiotis, or an occupational surname for a merchant of cloths, from πανί (paní, “cloth, fabric”). * Borrowed from Polish Panas and Ukrainian Пана́с (Panás), a hypocoristic form of various personal names.

Questions about panas

What does panas mean?
Panas means a surname.
What is panas the alternative form of?
Panas is the alternative form of ponhaws.
What part of speech is panas?
Panas is a proper noun.

Words near panas in the dictionary

  1. panarthritides
  2. panarthritis
  3. panarthropod
  4. panarthropods
  5. panary
  6. panas
  7. Panases
  8. panasian
  9. Panasonic
  10. panasqueiraite
  11. Panatag Shoal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panas (page history and authors); Panas (page history and authors); ponhaws (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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