panne

Meaning

plush velvet
breakdown (state of no longer functioning)
purlin

Frequency

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”).