panga

noun

1. (Africa, East, South-Africa)A large broad-bladed knife.

   “She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.”

   “Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.”

   “I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’”

2. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially an iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
3. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.
4. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.