panini
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India/pɑː.ɳi.ni/
panini is the plural of panino.
Meaning of panino
Noun
panino (plural panini)
- A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
- There’s a communal slate table where patrons can sit and drink shade-grown coffee or eat a panino stuffed with Julia Hermosa’s locally grown arugula and Sprout Creek Farm cheese.2009 June 7, Quick Bite/Bedford Hills, “A Farm Market in a Store”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
Noun
panini (plural paninis)
- A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
- (two characters talking at a table in a cafeteria) -- "What is that? What's a panini?" -- "It's a bread roll, toasted, flattened. It's nice."2007, Boy A, 00:17:15
- Likewise, “panini means bread rolls in Italian and in its singular form is panino.” So when we ask for ‘two paninis please’, it’s like an Italian requesting ‘due rollsi’.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020
Proper noun capitalized: Panini
Panini
- An ancient Indian grammarian known for codifying what came to be known as the Sanskrit language in his work the Aṣṭādhyāyī.
Forms of panini
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paninis |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Pāṇini |
Origin of panini
Borrowed from Italian panini, plural of panino (literally “small bread”).
Transliteration of Sanskrit पाणिनि (pāṇini).
Words formed from panini
Questions about panini
- What does panini mean?
- Panini means a type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
- What is panini the plural of?
- Panini is the plural of panino.
- What part of speech is panini?
- Panini can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce panini?
- Panini is pronounced /pɑː.ɳi.ni/ (India).
- What is the plural of panini?
- The plural of panini is paninis.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: panini (page history and authors); Panini (page history and authors); panino (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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