panne

Meaning

1. plush velvet
2. breakdown (state of no longer functioning)
3. purlin

Concepts

breakdown

fault

failure

purlin

outage

engine trouble

brakedown

mishap

out of order

stalling

stoat

stranding

trouble

breackdown

bring to a standstill

accident

equipment failure

blackout

break

break-down

damage

ermine

fur

Synonyms

interruption

arrêt

défaillance

dérangement

doublure

échec

fourrure

hermine

lard

🥓

contretemps

dérèglement

penne

accident

perte de marchandise

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pan/

Etymology

From Middle French panne, from Old French penne (“fur, especially for lining garments”), from Latin pinna (“feather”). The semantic trajectory was possibly influenced by a Frankish term with the same double-sense as Middle High German vëder (“fur; feather”).