پانچ

Urdu

Urdu numbers ^(edit)

	50[a], [b]
←  4	۵ 5	6  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: پان٘چ (pā̃c)     Ordinal: پان٘چْواں (pā̃cvā̃), پَنْجُم (panjum)     Multiplier: پَچ گُنا (pac gunā)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi पंच (paṃca), पांच (pāṃca), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀁𑀘 (paṃca), from Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑ̃ːt͡ʃ/

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Numeral

پان٘چ • (pā̃c) (Hindi spelling पाँच)

1. five

Descendants

• → English: punch (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پانچ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 331
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پانچ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 220
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پانچ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 146
• “پانچ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “پانچ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 365
• “پانچ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.