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pangas

pangas is the plural of panga.

Meaning of panga

Noun (1)

panga (plural pangas)

  1. (Africa, East, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
    • She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 77

Noun (2)

panga (plural pangas)

  1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially an iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
  2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

Noun (3)

panga (plural pangas)

  1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

Questions about pangas

What is pangas the plural of?
Pangas is the plural of panga.

Words near pangas in the dictionary

  1. Pangantucan
  2. Pangao
  3. Pangapisan
  4. pangar
  5. Pangares
  6. pangas
  7. pangasia
  8. pangasiid
  9. pangasiids
  10. Pangasinan
  11. Pangasinans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pangas (page history and authors); panga (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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