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(Αγγλικός)

(archaic) The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail.
(abbreviation, also, alt-of, attributive, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”).
(British, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of panda car (“a black-and-white police car”).

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/ˈpændə/

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ཕོ་ཉ

In summary

Borrowed from French panda, of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a local name for the red panda recorded in Nepal and Sikkim by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894), an ethnologist, naturalist and the British Resident of Nepal, possibly from Nepali निँगाले (nĩgāle, “relating to a certain species of bamboo”) (the adjectival form of निँगालो (nĩgālo), a variant of निङालो (niṅālo, “Drepanostachyum intermedium, a species of bamboo”)) + a regional Tibetan name for the animal (compare regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya, “messenger”)). Attributive uses of sense 2 (“giant panda”) generally refer to that animal’s distinctive black and white coat colour.