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pañcannaṁ

pañca

genitive plural masculine of pañca (numeral)

  1. five
  2. group of five

Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (five), cognate with Sanskrit pañca, Greek pente, Latin quinque, English five. The stem is ancient and unchanged across Indo-European languages.

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

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