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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Translingual

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-).

Pronunciation

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Prefix

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pan-

  1. Used to form higher clades with one main member.

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-), combining form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”).

Prefix

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pan-

  1. All. panenteroviral is relating to all enteroviruses, Panhellenic is of or relating to all Greece or all the Greeks, panneural is relating to all nerves, panphilia is a state of loving or accepting all things
    1. Every member of a countable set. pancarditis is inflammation of all three layers of the heart, panophthalmitis is the inflammation of all coats of the eye, panplegia is paralysis of all four extremities
    2. Most, nearly all, effectively all in quantity. panallergenic is relating to all (or most) allergens, panbacterial is relating to all (or most) types of bacteria, panhypopituitarism is a form of hypopituitarism affecting most of the pituitary hormones
    3. Encompassing, including all, or involving all. pancaspase is involving or relating to all (or most) caspases, pangender is encompassing or including all genders, panlingual is involving or encompassing all languages
    4. Entire, whole; the entirety of the root object or category. pancolonoscopy is colonoscopy of the entire colon, pangastritis is inflammation of the entire stomach lining, pangenomic is relating to the whole of a genome
    5. Universal, everything, all that can be imagined. pangeometry is a generalized geometry in any number of dimensions, panphobia is the fear of everything, theopanism is the belief that the universe emanates from God
    6. Unification of a social group; the political movement to unify said group. Pan-Africanism is a sociopolitical movement seeking to unify native Africans and those of African heritage into a global community, pan-Indianism is a movement promoting unity among different American Indian groups in the Americas regardless of tribal or local affiliations, pan-nationalism is nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity
    7. Spanning the entirety of a set which may not be countable; its members may not be clearly distinguished from each other. pancontinental is across all continents, pan-Covid is covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus, pancultural is across all cultures
    8. Throughout an area indicated by the root. panarctic is throughout the Arctic, pancolitis is a very severe form of ulcerative colitis that spreads throughout the large intestine from cecum to rectum, panfandom is occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom
    9. Representing or covering a given social group. Pan-Asian is covering or representing all of Asia; pan-Palestinian is covering or representing Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and the diaspora; Pan-Anglican is belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England
    10. Ubiquitous, widespread. The root indicates what is widespread rather than the area in which it is widespread. panallergen is any of a class of ubiquitous allergenic substances; pannecrosis is widespread necrosis, especially of neurons
  2. (LGBTQ) Pansexual or pansexuality. pancurious is exhibiting a state of uncertainty about one's pansexual or panromantic status; panphobia is fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality

Usage notes

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  • An initial capital may be used when this prefix attaches to an already capitalized word: e.g. pan-African or Pan-African.

Synonyms

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  • (all): al-/all-, omni-

Coordinate terms

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  • -wide

Derived terms

[edit] English terms prefixed with pan- Pan-Abrahamic panacetylated panacinar panaesthesia Pan-African Pan-Africanism panallergen panallergenic Pan-Altaism pan-Am Pan-American pan-American panamerican pan-Amerindianism panaminoglycoside panangiography Pan-Anglican panaortitis pan-Arabism panarchy panarctic Pan-Armenian panarteritis panarthritic panarthritis Pan-Asian panatheism panatrophic panatrophy panautonomic panaxonemal panbabylonism panbacterial panabase panbiogeographic panbiogeographical panbiogeography panbronchiolitis pancancer pancardiac pancarditis pancaspase pancellular pancentromeric pancerebellar Panchristism panchromatic panchronic panclastite pancolitis pancolonic pancolonoscopy pancontinental pancorneal pancoronavirus pancosmic pan-Covid pancultural pancurious pancyclic Pancyprian pancytopenia pancytokeratin pancytopenic pancytoplasmic pancytosis pandeism pandemic pandemonism pandemoniacal pandenominational pandestruction pandiagonal pandialectal pandiatonic pandigital pandimensional pan-disability pandysautonomia panegoism panencephalitis panendoscope panendoscopic panendoscopy panendothelial panenteroviral panenterovirus panepidemic panepithelial panesthesia panethnicity paneulogism pan-European panexperiential panfacial panfandom panflavivirus panfungal panfungus Pangaea pangalactic pangamic pangamy pangastritis pangender pangendered pangenesis pangenetic pangenome pangenomic pangenomically pangenomics pangenotype pangenotypic pangenotypical pangeometry pangermism pangermist Pan-German panglial panglobal panglomerular pangram Panhellenian Panhellenic panhellenism panhematopoietic panidrosis panhuman panhyperpituitarism panhypogammaglobulinemia panhypopituitarism panhypoproteinemia panhypoproteinemic panhysterectomy panidiomorphic panimmune panimmunity pan-Indian pan-Indianism pan-Indianist panintestinal Panionic Pan-Islam Pan-Islamic Panislamism theopanism panlectal panleucopaenia panleukocyte panleukopenia panleukopenic panlingual panlinguistic panlobular panlobularly panlogical panlogism panlogist panmacular panmagic panmesodermal panmesodermally pan-Muslimism panmyeloid panmyelosis pan-nationalism pannecrosis panneural panneuronal panneuronally pannexin panoceanic panomic panomics panophthalmitis panopsin panoptic panoptically panorganizational panorganotropic panortholog orthopantomography paneosteitis panosteitis panotitis pan-Palestinian panacea panbiotism panchromium pancognitivism pandemonium panexperientialism pangene panoistic panoply panorama panoramata panzootic pampathy
  • panacea
  • panchromatic
  • pancreas
  • pandect
  • pandeism
  • pandemic
  • pandemonism
  • pandemonium
  • panendeism
  • panentheism
  • panophobia
  • panoply
  • panopticon
  • panorama
  • panpsychism
  • pansentience
  • pansexual
  • pantheism
  • pantheon
  • pantograph
  • pantomime
terms derived from all
  • panaminoglycoside
  • panarchy
  • panarthritis
  • pancancer
  • panchromatic
  • pancoronavirus
  • panendothelial
  • panenteroviral
  • panenterovirus
  • pangender
  • pangenotypic
  • panglial
  • panglomerular
  • Panhellenic
  • panhuman
  • panintestinal
  • Pan-Islamic
  • panleukocyte
  • panlinguistic
  • panmyeloid
  • panneural
  • panneuronal
  • panoceanic
  • panorganotropic
  • panpestivirus
  • panpharmacon
  • panphilia
  • panplacodal
  • pantheism
terms derived from every
  • panacetylated
  • panacinar
  • panarthritis
  • panatrophy
  • panbronchiolitis
  • pancarditis
  • pancellular
  • pancerebellar
  • pancyclic
  • pancytokeratin
  • pancytopenia
  • pandigital
  • pandimensional
  • panglobal
  • pangram
  • panhypogammaglobulinemia
  • panlectal
  • panophthalmitis
  • panplegia
terms derived from most
  • panallergenic
  • panaxonemal
  • panbacterial
  • pancardiac
  • panchromatic
  • panepithelial
  • panflavivirus
  • panfungal
  • pangenome
  • panhematopoietic
  • panhyperpituitarism
  • panhypopituitarism
  • panhypoproteinemia
terms derived from encompassing
  • panarchy
  • panautonomic
  • pancaspase
  • Pancyprian
  • Pangaea
  • pangender
  • pangendered
  • Panionic
  • panlingual
  • panlinguistic
  • panoptic
  • pan-Polish
terms derived from entire
  • panamerican
  • panangiography
  • pancolonic
  • pancolonoscopy
  • panfacial
  • pangastritis
  • pangenomic
  • panhysterectomy
  • panidrosis
  • panlobular
  • panomics
  • panorama
terms derived from universal
  • panacea
  • pancognitivism
  • pandeism
  • pandemonism
  • paneulogism
  • pangeometry
  • panlogism
  • panphobia
  • pantheism
  • theopanism
terms derived from unification
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Pan-Altaism
  • pan-Arabism
  • pan-Indianism
  • pan-Indianist
  • Pan-Islam
  • Panislamism
  • pan-Muslimism
  • pan-nationalism
terms derived from spanning
  • pancontinental
  • pancorneal
  • pan-Covid
  • pancultural
  • pandialectal
  • pan-disability
  • pan-European
  • pan-Indian
terms derived from throughout
  • panarctic
  • pancolitis
  • pancosmic
  • panfandom
  • pangalactic
  • panmacular
  • panmesodermal
  • panortholog
terms derived from complete
  • panidiomorphic
  • panoply
terms derived from representing
  • Pan-American
  • Pan-Anglican
  • Pan-Asian
  • pan-Palestinian
terms derived from ubiquitous
  • panallergen
  • pandemic
  • pannecrosis
terms derived from pansexual
  • pancurious
  • panphobia

Translations

[edit] a combining form meaning "all"
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 泛 (zh) (fàn)
  • Danish: pan-, al-, fælles-
  • Dutch: pan- (nl), al- (nl)
  • Finnish: yleis-, pan-
  • Galician: pan- (gl)
  • German: pan- (de)
  • Greek: παν- (el) (pan-)
  • Hindi: सर्व (hi) (sarv)
  • Hungarian: pán- (hu)
  • Irish: pan-
  • Italian: pan- (it)
  • Japanese: 汎 (ja) (はん, han-)
  • Korean: 범- (ko) (beom-)
  • Malay: pan- (ms)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: pan- Nynorsk: pan-
  • Portuguese: pan- (pt)
  • Russian: пан- (ru) (pan-), все- (vse-), обще- (obšče-)
  • Spanish: pan- (es)

Anagrams

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  • -nap, ANP, NAP, NPA, PNA, nap

Cebuano

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Prefix

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pan- (Badlit spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

  1. alternative form of pang-

Derived terms

[edit] Cebuano terms prefixed with pan- pangang-ang panagat panginahanglan pagpanira pagpanunggab panagang paningsingan paniper panaghigala panaguto panawagan paningog panitik panuhod panultol

Central Bikol

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Alternative forms

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  • pang-, pam-

Prefix

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pan-

  1. Instrumentative case of the noun - a tool or an instrument that is used to perform the action expressed by the root ‎pan- + ‎takop (“a cover”) → ‎pantakop (“an instrument used to cover something”)

Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [pan ]

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Czech terms prefixed with pan- pangermánský

Further reading

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  • “pan-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • pan- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Finnish

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Etymology

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Internationalism (see English pan-), ultimately from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑn-/, [ˈpɑ̝n-]

Prefix

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pan-

  1. (in loanwords) pan-

French

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Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] French terms prefixed with pan- panafricain panarabe panchronique pangermanisme pangermaniste panhellénique panislamisme panoptique panphobie panpsychisme panrusse panslave panslavisme

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pan/, [pʰän]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] German terms prefixed with pan- panchronisch Pandeismus paneuropäisch panhellenisch panislamisch panphotometrisch panresistent Pansexualität pansexuell Pantheismus
  • Pangenesis

Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • pain-

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Irish terms prefixed with pan- painideamorfach

Italian

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Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Italian terms prefixed with pan- panafricanismo panafricanista panafricano panamericanismo panamericano panarabismo panarabo panartrite panasiatico panasiatismo panceltico pancristiano pancromatico pandemonio panellenico panellenista pandemia paneuropeo panfotometrico pangermanesimo pangermanista pangermanistico panislamico panislamismo panislamista panlogico panlogistico pannegro panoftalmite panortodosso panottico panellenismo panlogismo panromanzo panrusso pansessuale pansessualismo pansessualità panslavismo panslavista panslavistico pansovietico pantalassico pantedesco panteismo panteista panteistico pantropicale panvocalismo panpsichismo

Anagrams

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  • NAP

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with pan- panteisme

References

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  • “pan-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “pan-” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with pan- panteisme

References

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  • “pan-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

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Etymology

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Derived from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pan/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: pan-
  • Homophones: pan, PAN, Pan

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Polish terms prefixed with pan- panafrykanizm panafrykański panchroniczny pangram panslawizm

Further reading

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  • pan- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɐ̃/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐn/, (before nasal consonants) /ˌpɐ̃/
  • Rhymes: (Brazil and before nasal consonants) -ɐ̃, (Portugal otherwise) -ɐn

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Usage notes

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This prefix has the following allomorphs:

  • Before ⟨p⟩ and ⟨b⟩, it becomes pam-.
  • In Portugal, the prefix's final /n/:
    • before /m/, assimilates to this sound and then to a nasal vowel;
    • before /n/, assimilates to a nasal vowel to prevent geminated consonants, not allowed in Portuguese.

Derived terms

[edit] Portuguese terms prefixed with pan- pan-americano pandeísmo pandemónio pan-óptico panteísmo pansexual panteísta Pantalassa

Further reading

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

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), neuter form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”).

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan- Synonyms: omni-, todo

Derived terms

[edit] Spanish terms prefixed with pan- panafricanismo panafricanista panafricano panamericanismo panamericano panarabismo pancatalanismo pancitopenia pancromático pandeísmo paneuropeo pangermano panhelénico panhelenismo panhipopituitarismo panhispánico panóptico panregional panruso pansexual pansexualidad panteísmo panteísta

Further reading

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  • “pan-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân).

Prefix

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pan-

  1. pan-

Derived terms

[edit] Swedish terms prefixed with pan- panafrikansk panasiatisk panpsykism panslavisk

Tagalog

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Prefix

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pan- (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈ᜔)

  1. alternative form of pang-, if the root starts with alveolar consonants, such as ⟨d⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨s⟩, or ⟨t⟩, which sometimes gets nasally assimilated to the prefix ending when starts with alveolar consonants, ⟨s⟩, ⟨t⟩, or ⟨d⟩. ‎pan- + ‎digma (“war”) → ‎pandigma (“meant for war”) ‎pan- + ‎diwa (“gist”) → ‎pandiwa (“verb”) ‎pan- + ‎lasa (“flavor”) → ‎panlasa (“taste”) ‎pan- + ‎samantala (“while”) → ‎pansamantala (“temporary”) ‎pan- + ‎sampalataya (“belief”) → ‎pananampalataya (“faith”) ‎pan- + ‎takip (“cover”) → ‎pantakip (“an instrument used to cover something”) ‎pan- + ‎talo (“defeat”) → ‎panalo (“victory”)

Usage notes

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  • When used before root initials /d/, /s/, or /t/, the said initials sometimes undergo nasal assimilation to the prefix ending. ‎pan- + ‎damit (“clothing”) → ‎pananamit (“act of wearing clothes”) ‎pan- + ‎sulat (“writing”) → ‎panulat (“writing instrument”) ‎pan- + ‎tinda (“sale”) → ‎paninda (“merchandise”)
  • Native speakers sometimes use the prefix pang- by default, instead of pan- without any morpheme change to the word. ‎pang- + ‎sulat (“writing”) → ‎pangsulat (literally “for writing”) ‎pang- + ‎takip (“cover”) → ‎pangtakip (literally “for covering”)

Derived terms

[edit] Tagalog terms prefixed with pan- panahon pandaigdig panalangin pandama pananamit pandangal pandikit pandinig pandidiri pandiwa pandula kapanlikhaan panlaba panlabas panlakad panlalayanan panlampaso panlangit panlapi panlasa panliligaw panlikod panlikuran panlilimos panlinis panlipunan panloloob panloob panlukbutan panlulusob panaginip panasila panatili pananabotahe panagano panagutin panaklaw pananalapi panalo pananamantala pansamantala pananampalataya panara pansara paninigarilyo panipi panunuhol panukat panulat panunumpa panundong panablay pantablay pananagos panahinga panainga panakda panakip pantakip panakot pananambang pananaw panandaan panananim pananim pananong panao panauhin pantao pantasa pantaya paneham panimbang paningin panitik paniniwala pantropiko pantukoy panunuluyan pantuos panuos panutog panunuya panyapak

Further reading

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  • “pan-”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
  • https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/nouns/noun_affixes/pang.html

Anagrams

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  • NPA

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