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pan, noun
bread; loaf

as the Lord’s Prayer says.
In this particular case the Spanish and English are very similar, because they come from a common source.
But in the next case, Spanish expresses the same idea as English in very different words, which reflect the historical importance of bread and wine in Hispanic culture:

Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día.
Give us this day our daily bread
llamar al pan pan, y al vino vino
to call a spade a spade
Parece que usted está dispuesto a dejar las cosas claras: a llamar al pan pan, y al vino vino.
You seem to be prepared to make things clear, to call a spade a spade.


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