Pancake

Noun

 * 1) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
 * 2)  A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

Synonyms

 * crêpe or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake

Derived terms

 * flat as a pancake
 * pancake landing


 * Pancake Day
 * pancake tortoise

Verb

 * 1) To make a pancake landing
 * 2)  To collapse one floor after another.

Thesaurus
alight, blintz, buckwheat cake, cheese blintz, come down, come in, crash-land, crepe, descend, ditch, downwind, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, land, level off, light, overshoot, palacsinta, settle down, talk down, touch down, upwind, waffle

Etymology
1430,

Noun

 * Afrikaans: pannekoek
 * Arabic: (faTiira)
 * Asturian: frixuelo
 * Bengali: প্যানকেক
 * Chinese: 薄烤饼 (bókǎo bǐng)
 * Crimean Tatar: şırlama
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: patkuko
 * Finnish:, , ;
 * French:, pancake
 * Galician: filloa
 * German:
 * Greek: τηγανίτα (tiganíta), τηγανόψωμο (tiganópsomo)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: frittella, crespolino , crespella


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)
 * Luxembourgish: Panech, Panecher, Paangech, Pankech
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: clătită
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: palacinka
 * Spanish: hot cake, ,  ,  , tortita , , , filoa, hojuela
 * Swedish: pannkaka
 * Tamil: தோசை
 * Telugu: దోశ