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Pronounced PAHT-na. Caribbean (Trinidadian) dialect for 'partner'. Can be meant in as a term of comeraderie, or it can be an aggessive, acromonious, and sarcastic term signaling a conflicting view of the other person, depending on the context (like 'buddy', 'pal', etc.).
EXAMPLE 1:
Aye, go see Lenroy by de roti shop on Eglinton Avenue West fuh de tickets ... da'is meh good pahtnah.

EXAMPLE 2:
Aye, whey wrong wit yuh chupid ass, pahtnah?!?
pahtnah by TommyZero August 17, 2012
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(noun) - ghetto version of partner used by black men on the "down low" to describe the other man they have sex with while not pretending to be straight.
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