frying pan

See also: frying-pan and fryingpan

English

Stainless steel frying pan.

Alternative forms

• frying-pan, fryingpan

Etymology

From Middle English fryyng panne; equivalent to frying +‎ pan.

Pronunciation

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Noun

frying pan (plural frying pans)

2. (cooking) A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 2:7:

     And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

   • 1944 April 18, “German Spy”, in Fibber McGee and Molly, spoken by Beulah:

     If he comes Nazi spyin' 'round me, I'm goin' to Gestapo him across the head with a fryin' pan!

Synonyms

• (pan for frying food): fry pan or frypan, pan, skillet (US)

Derived terms

• out of the frying pan, into the fire

Descendants

• → Macanese: falânpám

Translations

long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food

• Abaza: таба (taba)
• Afrikaans: braaipan, eierpan
• Albanian: fërterë f, tigan (sq) m
• Arabic: مِقْلَاة (ar) f (miqlāh)

  Egyptian Arabic: طاسة f (ṭāsa)

  Gulf Arabic: مقلة f (migḷa)

  Hijazi Arabic: طاوة f (ṭāwa)

  Moroccan Arabic: مقلة f (maqla)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܩܠܝܵܐ m (maqlyā), ܬܵܘܵܐ m (tāwā)

• Armenian: թավա (hy) (tʻava)

  Old Armenian: տապակ (tapak)

• Asturian: payella (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: tava (az)
• Bashkir: таба (taba)
• Basque: zartagin
• Belarusian: патэ́льня f (patélʹnja), скаварада́ f (skavaradá)
• Bengali: ভাজার চাটু (bhajar caṭu), ফ্রাইং প্যান (phraiṅ pên)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: kawali (bcl)

• Bulgarian: тига́н (bg) m (tigán)
• Catalan: paella (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平底鍋 / 平底锅 (zh) (píngdǐguō), 煎鍋 / 煎锅 (zh) (jiānguō)

• Chukchi: выръэпатъёлгын (vyrʺėpatʺjolgyn)
• Circassian:

  East Circassian: табэ (tabɛ)

  West Circassian: табэ (tabɛ)

• Czech: pánev (cs) f
• Danish: stegepande (da) c
• Dargwa: тава (tava)
• Dutch: koekenpan (nl) m or f
• Erzya: пачалго (pačalgo)
• Esperanto: pato (eo), fritilo
• Estonian: praepann, pann
• Finnish: paistinpannu (fi)
• French: poêle (fr) f, poêle à frire (fr) f, esquilette (fr) f (Missouri)
• Galician: tixola (gl), tixela (gl) f, panela (gl) f, frixideira (gl) f, sartaña (gl) f
• Georgian: ტაფა (ka) (ṭapa)

  Old Georgian: ტაპაკი (ṭaṗaḳi)

• German: Bratpfanne (de) f, Pfanne (de) f

  Alemannic German: Pfane f

• Greek: τηγάνι (el) n (tigáni)

  Ancient Greek: τάγηνον n (tágēnon)

• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} ñapy'ũ, ^{(please verify)} ñepyũ

• Hebrew: מַחֲבַת (he) f (makhavát)
• Hindi: कड़ाही (hi) f (kaṛāhī), कड़ाहा (hi) m (kaṛāhā), तवा (hi) m (tavā)
• Hungarian: serpenyő (hu)
• Icelandic: steikarpanna
• Ido: padelo (io)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Ingrian: reehtila
• Italian: padella (it) f, tegame (it) m
• Japanese: フライパン (ja) (furaipan)
• Karelian: riehtilä
• Kazakh: таба (kk) (taba)
• Korean: 프라이팬 (ko) (peuraipaen), 후라이팬 (ko) (huraipaen)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاوە (ckb) (tawe)

  Northern Kurdish: tave (ku), tavik (ku)

• Kyrgyz: таба (ky) (taba)
• Ladino: sarten f
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sartāgō f
• Latvian: panna f
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: keptuvė f
• Lower Tanana: beyi ch'et'adhi
• Macanese: falânpám
• Macedonian: тава f (tava), тиган m (tigan)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: taġen m
• Māori: raupane, parai
• Mingrelian: ტაფე (ṭape)
• Mòcheno: pfònn f
• Mongolian: хайруулын таваг (xairuulyn tavag)
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: chài

• Navajo: tseeʼé
• Neapolitan: sartana
• Norman: câssetrole f (Jersey), pêle f (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stekepanne (no) m or f, steikepanne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: steikepanne f, steikjepanne f

• Occitan: padèla (oc) f, sartan (oc) f
• Old English: brǣdepanne f
• Persian: تابه (fa) (tâbe), ماهیتابه (fa) (mâhitâbe)
• Polabian: šopo f
• Polish: patelnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: frigideira (pt) f, sertã (pt) f
• Quechua: payla
• Romanian: tigaie (ro) f, cratiță (ro) f
• Russian: сковорода́ (ru) f (skovorodá), сковоро́дка (ru) f (skovoródka) (colloquial)
• Samogitian: petėlnė f
• Sanskrit: कटाह (sa) (kaṭāha)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgeileid f, aghann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тигањ m, тава f

  Latin: tiganj (sh) m, tava (sh) f

• Slovak: panvica f
• Slovene: ponev (sl) f
• Southern Altai: сковорода (skovoroda), кааргыш (kaargïš)
• Spanish: sartén (es)
• Svan: ტაფა̈ (ṭapä)
• Swedish: stekpanna (sv) c, stekplåt (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawali (tl)
• Tajik: тоба (tg) (toba)
• Taos: púeloną
• Tatar: таба (tt) (taba)
• Thai: กระทะ (th) (grà-tá)
• Tibetan: ཚལ་སླང (tshal slang)
• Turkish: tava (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: تاوه (tava), طغان (tığan)

• Ukrainian: сковорода́ (uk) f (skovorodá), пате́льня (uk) f (patélʹnja), сковорі́дка f (skovorídka) (diminutive)
• Ulithian: fraaypang
• Urdu: کڑاہی f (kaṛāhī), توا m (tavā), تابہ (tâba)
• Uzbek: tova (uz)
• Vietnamese: chảo (vi), xanh (vi)
• Volapük: loetamapaäl (vo)
• Walloon: paile (wa) f, payele (wa) f
• Welsh: padell ffrio (cy) f
• Yakut: хобордоох (qobordooq)
• Yiddish: סקאָווראָדע f (skovrode)
• Yup'ik: eskuulutaq

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