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pañca

x nom pl of pañca (card); x acc pl of pañca (card)

  1. five (5)

Etymology. From Indo-European *pénkwe (five), cognate with Sanskrit pañca, Greek pénte, Latin quinque, English five, German fünf. The Pali form preserves the labial stop; the nasal assimilates before the following velar.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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