ปังตอ
cleaver
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- 1 cleaver、butcher's knife
A ปังตอ is a large, broad-bladed kitchen knife used mainly for chopping meat.
cleaver、butcher's knife
A large, rectangular-bladed knife designed for chopping and cutting meat.
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ใช้ปังตอสับหมู cháy paŋtɔɔ sàp mǔu Use a cleaver to chop the pork. ใช้ปังตอสับหมู details
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ปังตอเล่มนี้คมมาก paŋtɔɔ lêm níi khom mâak This cleaver is very sharp. ปังตอเล่มนี้คมมาก details
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พ่อค้าข้าวมันไก่ใช้ปังตอสับไก่อย่างชำนาญ phɔ̂ɔkháa khâaw man kày cháy paŋtɔɔ sàp kày yàaŋ chamnaan The chicken rice vendor skillfully chops the chicken with a cleaver. พ่อค้าข้าวมันไก่ใช้ปังตอสับไก่อย่างชำนาญ details
Learning notes
Explanation
This noun is of Chinese origin and refers to a large kitchen knife with a broad, roughly rectangular blade. It is commonly used to cut, chop, or portion meat. It often occurs with สับ, meaning “to chop with repeated downward strokes.” The knife may be called simply ปังตอ or, more explicitly, มีดปังตอ. Like other knives and bladed tools, it takes the classifier เล่ม: ปังตอหนึ่งเล่ม means “one cleaver.”
Usage
It is commonly heard in home and restaurant kitchens, butcher shops, and markets. The word is especially associated with forceful downward chopping, such as portioning cooked chicken at a chicken rice stall.
Caution
It does not refer to every kind of kitchen knife and is not used for small paring or fruit knives. It should also be distinguished from ขวาน, an axe used for splitting or cutting wood.