English Explanatory Dictionary

pawn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
  2. An instance of pawning something.
  3. An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
  4. A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
verb
  1. To pledge; to stake or wager.
  2. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
noun
  1. The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
  2. A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
noun
  1. Alternative form of paan.
noun
  1. A gallery.
verb
  1. Alternative form of pwn.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɔːn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pawn.wav /ˈpɔn/ /ˈpɑn/ /ˈpɒn/ /ˈpɑɒn/

Word forms

pawn pawns pawning pawned

Etymology

From Middle English paun, pawyn, pawnd, from Old French pan, pant (“pledge for a payment”), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *pand (“deposit, security, pledge”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pound (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), West Frisian pân (“pawn”), Dutch pand (“pledge, pawn”), German Low German Pand (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), German Pfand (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), Swedish pant (“pledge, pawn”), Faroese pantur (“security, lien”), Icelandic pantur (“pledge, security, pawn”).

Synonyms

pawn hock lumber pledge spout vamp chess piece

Related words

en passant promotion underpromotion pawn race pawn storm push centipawn open file half-open file closed file hole Appendix:Chess pieces pawn off ♙ ♟

Derived words

impawn pawnbroker pawnee pawner pawning pawnshop pawnticket pawnable pawnage pawn off as repawn unpawn unpawned advanced pawn backward pawn bishop's pawn centipawn central pawn connected pawn doubled pawn hexapawn isolated pawn king's bishop's pawn king's knight's pawn king's pawn king's rook's pawn knight's pawn millipawn octopawn outside passed pawn passed pawn pawn break pawn chain pawn cube pawn grabbing pawn island pawnless pawnlike pawn race pawn storm poisoned pawn poison pawn queen's bishop's pawn queen's knight's pawn queen's pawn queen's rook's pawn remote passed pawn rook's pawn tall pawn tripled pawn wrong rook pawn

Translations

Bulgarian: зало́г Danish: pant Dutch: pand Finnish: pantti French: gage German: Pfand German: Versatzstück Greek: ενέχυρο Hebrew: עבוט Norwegian: pant Swedish: pant Afrikaans: pion Albanian: ushtar Arabic: جُنْدِيّ Arabic: بَيْدَق Armenian: զինվոր Asturian: peón Azerbaijani: piyada Belarusian: пе́шка Belarusian: ла́тнік Belarusian: ні́жнік Bengali: বোড়ে Breton: pezh gwerin Bulgarian: пе́шка Burmese: နယ် Catalan: peó Chinese Cantonese: 兵 Chinese Cantonese: 士兵 Chinese Cantonese: 卒 Chinese: 士兵 Chinese: 兵 Chinese Mandarin: 兵 Czech: pěšec Danish: bonde Dutch: pion Esperanto: peono Estonian: ettur Faroese: finna Finnish: sotilas French: pion Galician: peón Georgian: პაიკი German: Bauer Greek: πιόνι Greek: στρατιώτης Hebrew: חייל Hebrew: רגלי Hindi: प्यादा Hindi: पियादा Hindi: सिपाही Hungarian: gyalog Hungarian: paraszt Icelandic: peð Ido: piono Indonesian: bidak Indonesian: pion Irish: ceithearnach Irish: fichillín Italian: pedone Italian: pedina Japanese: ポーン Javanese: bidhag Kazakh: сарбаз Kazakh: пешка Khmer: ត្រី Korean: 폰 Korean: 졸
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