pan

=

bread

sustantivo

pan
masculine noun
1. bread (alimento)
  • un pan -> a loaf of bread
  • pan de barra -> French bread
  • pan Bimbo® -> sliced bread (peninsular Spanish)
  • pan francés -> French bread
  • pan de centeno -> rye bread
  • pan integral -> wholemeal o (British) wholewheat bread (United States)
  • pan de molde -> sliced bread
  • pan moreno o negro -> brown bread; (integral) black o rye bread (con centeno)
  • pan de oro -> gold leaf o foil
  • pan rallado -> breadcrumbs
2. (expresiones)
  • a pan y agua -> on bread and water; on the breadline (figurative)
  • contigo, pan y cebolla (informal) -> I'll go through thick and thin with you
  • ganarse el pan -> to earn a living
  • llamar al pan pan y al vino vino -> to call a spade a spade
  • ser más bueno que el pan (informal) -> to be kindness itself
  • estar más bueno que el pan (informal) -> to be gorgeous
  • ser pan comido (informal) -> to be a piece of cake, to be as easy as pie
  • ser el pan nuestro de cada día (informal) -> to be commonplace, to be an everyday occurence
  • a falta de pan buenas son tortas (Prov) -> you have to make the most of what you've got

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pan [pahn]
noun
1. Bread, a loaf. (m)
2. Pie-crust. (m)
3. Mass of figs, salt, sugar, etc., in the shape of a loaf. (m)
4. Food in general. (m)
5. Wheat. (m)
  • Este año hay mucho pan -> this year there is plenty of wheat
6. A wafer or bread for the Eucharist, baked with baking-irons. (m)
7. Leaf of gold or silver. (m)
8. Greek prefix, signifying «all. (m)
  • Pan casero o bazo -> household bread
  • Pan por pan -> vino por vino, the plain unvarnished truth
  • Pan de centeno -> rye bread
  • Pan moreno -> brown bread
  • Es el pan nuestro de cada día -> (fig.) our daily bread
  • Eso es pan comido -> it's a cinch
  • Contigo pan y cebolla -> with you I'd gladly have love in a cottage
  • Estar a pan y agua -> to be on bread and water
  • Por un mendrugo de pan -> for a bite to eat
  • Es más bueno que el pan -> he is kindness itself
  • Se venden como pan bendito -> they sell like hot cakes
  • Quitarle a uno el pan de la boca -> to take the bread out of somebody’s mouth
» 9. All grains, except wheat, of which bread is made.

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