a foreign person who is in charge of a business in China 大班（旧时对中国洋行老板的称呼） an extremely poisonous Australian snake 太潘蛇（产于澳大利亚，剧毒）
Word Originsense 1 mid 19th cent.: from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) daaihbāan.sense 2 1930s: from Wik Munkan (an extinct Aboriginal language of North Queensland) dhayban.