パン

noun

bread; sweet bread or pastry

The ordinary word for bread. In Japanese it also covers many bakery items such as sweet buns and filled breads, especially in words like 菓子パン, あんパン, and クリームパン.

from Portuguese pão

• 朝ちょう食しょくにトーストしたパンを食たべた。

  I ate toasted bread for breakfast.

• おやつに甘あまいパンを一ひとつ買かった。

  I bought a sweet pastry for a snack.

noun

bread as sustenance; daily bread; livelihood

A literary or translation-style metaphor for basic sustenance or earning a living. It is not the usual modern everyday word for livelihood; 生計 or 暮らし is more normal.

• 人ひとはパンのみにて生いくるものにあらず。

  Man shall not live by bread alone.

• 古ふるい翻ほん訳やく調ちょうの文ぶん章しょうでは、「パンを得える」が生せい計けいを立たてる意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In old, translation-like writing, パンを得る is sometimes used to mean making a living.