frying pan · short for compounds having -pfanne as their last component · in technical contexts often a metaphor for various implements termed in English mostly socket, as well as in anatomical terminology.
köken: From Middle High German pfanne, from Old High German phanna, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“bowl, platter”). Doublet of Patina.
aile: etwas auf der Pfanne haben, in die Pfanne hauen, pfannenartig, pfannenlos