Sanskrit pañcan (190)
According to Monier-Williams’ A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Sanskrit word pañcan means “to spread out the hand with its five fingers.” It traces its origin to the Tamil root aintu through the transformation of aintu > pañcan. The following words, related to Sanskrit pañcan, also originate from Tamil aintu.
pac or pañc, “to spread out, make clear or evident.” panca, “spread out; a kind of measure.” pañca-kapāla, “prepared or offered in five cups or bowls.” pañca-karṇa, “branded in the ear with the number 5.” pañca-karma, pañca-karman, and pañca-karmī, “the 5 kinds of treatment.” pañca-kalyāṇaka, “a horse with white feet and a white mouth.” pañca-kashāya, “a decoction from the fruits of 5 plants.” pañca-ja and pañca-yôttha, “produced from the above decoction.” pañca-kāpittha, “prepared with the 5 products of Feronia elephantum.” pañca-kārukī, “the 5 artisans in a village.” pañca-kṛitya, “the 5 actions by which the supreme power manifests itself.” pañca-kṛitvas, “5 times.” pañca-kṛishṇa, “having 5 black spots, a species of poisonous insect.” pañca-koṇa, “a pentagon.” pañca-kola or pañca-laka, “the 5 spices.” pañca-koṡa, “the 5 sheaths supposed to invest the soul.” pañca-krama, “a particular Krama (or method of reciting the Vedic text) consisting of 5 members.” pañca-kroṡa or pañcaṡī, “a distance of 5 Kroṡas.” pañca-kleṡa-bheda, “afflicted by the 5 kinds of pain.” pañca-khaṭva and pañcavī, “a collection of 5 bedsteads.” pañca-gaṅgā, “name of a locality.” pañca-gaṇḍaka, “consisting of 5 parts (said of the Dharma-cakra).” pañca-gata, “arrived at 5, raised to the 5th power.” pañca-gati-samatikrānta, “having passed through the 5 forms of existence.” pañca-gava and pañca-gavī, “a collection of 5 cows.” pañca-vadhana, “one whose property consists of 5 cows.” pañca-gavya, “the 5 products of the cow.” pañca-gu, “bought with 5 cows.” pañca-guṇa, “fivefold; having 5 virtues or good qualities.” pañca-gupta, “covered or protected in a fivefold manner.” pañca-gṛihītá, “taken or taken up 5 times.” pañca-goṇi, “carrying 5 loads.” pañca-grāmī, “a collection of 5 villages.” pañca-cakshus, “five-eyed.” pañca-citīka, “piled up in 5 tiers or layers.” pañca-cūḍa, “having 5 protuberances; having 5 crests or tufts of hair.” pañca-cola, “name of a part of the Himâlaya range.” pañca-janá, “the 5 classes of beings.” pañca-jñāna, “possessing fivefold knowledge.” pañca-taksha, pañcakshī, “a collection of 5 carpenters.” pañca-tattva, “the 5 elements collectively; (in the Tantras) the 5 essentials.” pañca-tantra, “name of the well-known collection of moral stories and fables in 5 books from which the Hitopadeṡa is partly taken.” pañca-tanmātra, “the 5 subtle rudiments of the 5 elements.” pañca-tapas, “the 5 fires.” pañca-tā, “fivefoldness, fivefold state or amount; an aggregate or a collection of 5 things, (especially) the 5 elements, viz. earth, air, fire, water and ākāṡa ether, and dissolution into them i.e., death.” pañca-tāra, “five-starred.” pañca-tikta, “5 bitter things.” pañca-trika, “5 x 3.” pañca-daṇḍa, “having 5 sticks.” pañca-dāman, “having 5 cords.” pañca-dīrgha, “the 5 long parts of the body.” pañca-drauṇika, “containing 5 Droṇas.” pañca-dhā́, “in 5 ways or parts, fivefold.” pañca-nakha, “5-clawed, having 5 nails, a 5-clawed animal.” pañca-nada, “the Pañjāb or country of 5 rivers.” pañca-nimba, “the 5 products (viz. the flowers, fruit, leaves, bark, and root) of the Azadirachta indica.” pañca-nīrājana, “waving 4 things (viz. a lamp, lotus, cloth, mango or betel leaf) before an idol and then falling prostrate.” pañca-pakshin, “name of a small work containing auguries ascribed to Ṡiva (in which the 5 vowels a, i, u, e, o are connected with 5 birds).” pañca-pañcaka and pañca-pañcan, “5 x 5.” pañca-pañcanakha, “species of 5 animals allowed to be killed and eaten (the hare, porcupine, alligator, rhinoceros, and tortoise).” pañca-pañcin, “fivefold.” pañca-pattra, “having 5 feathers; 5-leaved.” pañca-pada, “containing 5 Padas; taking 5 steps, consisting of 5 feet or steps or parts.” pañca-parishad, “an assembly taking place every 5th year.” pañca-parva, “(river) having 5 windings.” pañca-parvata, “the 5 peaks’ (of the Himâlayas).” pañca-parvan, “5-knotted (as an arrow); a stick with 5 knots.” pañca-pallava, “the aggregate of 5 sprigs.” pañca-pāda, “5-footed.” pañca-pitta, “the gall or bile of 5 animals (viz. the boar, goat, buffalo, fish, and peacock).” pañca-purusham, “through 5 generations of men.” pañca-pushpamaya, “formed or consisting of 5 flowers.” pañca-pūlī, “5 bunches.” pañca-prastha, “having 5 elevations or rising grounds.” pañca-praharaṇa, “having 5 carriage-boxes.” pañca-prâṇa, “the 5 vital airs (supposed to be in the body).” pañca-prāsāda, “a temple with 4 pinnacles and a steeple.” pañca-baddha, “joined into 5.” pañca-bala, “the 5 forces.” pañca-balā, “the 5 plants called Balā.” pañca-bāṇa, “having 5 arrows.” pañca-bila, “having 5 openings.” pañca-bīja, “a collection of 5 kinds of seeds.” pañca-bhadra, “having 5 good qualities or auspicious marks.” pañca-bhuja, “5-armed, pentagonal.” pañca-bhūta, “the 5 elements (earth, air, fire, water, and ākāṡa).” pañca-maya, “consisting of 5 (elements).” pañca-mahāpātakin, “guilty of the 5 great sius.” pañca-mukha, “5-faced or 5-headed.” pañca-mūtra, “the urine of 5 (female animals, viz. the cow, goat, sheep, buffalo, and ass).” pañca-mūlī, “a class or group of 5 roots or plants with tuberous roots (according to Suṡruta there are 5 classes each containing 5 medicinal plants).” pañca-yuga, “a cycle of 5 years.” pañca-ratna, “a collection of 5 jewels or precious things (viz. gold, diamond, sapphire, ruby, and pearl; or gold, silver, coral, pearl, and Rāga-paṭṭa).” pañca-rātra or pañca-traka, “a period of 5 days (nights), lasting 5 days.” pañca-lakshaṇa, “possessing 5 characteristics.” pañca-lavaṇa, “5 kinds of salt (viz. kāca, saindhava, sāmudra, viḍa, and sauvarcala).” pañca-loha, “a metallic alloy containing 5 metals (viz. copper, brass, tin, lead, and iron).” pañca-lohaka, “the 5 metals (viz. gold, silver, copper, tin, and lead).” pañca-vaktra, “5-faced.” pañca-varga, “a class or group or series of 5, e.g., the 5 constituent elements of the body.” pañca-varṇa, “5-coloured; fivefold, of 5 kinds.” pañca-vali, “having 5 folds or incisions.” pañca-valkala, “a collection of the bark of 5 kinds of trees.” pañca-vallabhā, “dear to 5.” pañca-vāhίn, “yoked with 5, drawn by 5.” pañca-vikrama, “(a carriage) moving in a fivefold manner.” pañca-vidha, “of 5 kinds, fivefold.” pañca-vṛiksha, “the 5 trees.” pañca-ṡas, “by fives, 5 by 5.” pañca-ṡākha, “5-branched, 5-fingered.” pañca-ṡukla, “having 5 white spots.” pañca-sha, “5 or 6.” pañca-sasya, “5 species of grain.” pañca-sūnā, “5 things in a house by which animal life may be accidentally destroyed.” pāñcâkshara, “consisting of 5 syllables.” pañcâgni, “the 5 sacred fires.” pañcâṅga, “5 members or parts of the body; 5 parts of a tree (viz. root, bark, leaf, flower, and fruit); 5 modes of devotion (viz. silent prayer, oblations, libations, bathing idols, and feeding Brāhmans); any aggregate of 5 parts; 5-limbed, 5-membered; having 5 parts or subdivisions; in a tortoise or turtle, a horse with 5 spots in various parts of his body.” pañcâṅgula, “measuring 5 ringers.” pañcânana, “very fierce or passionate (literally 5-faced).” pañcâmṛita, “the 5 kinds of divine food.” pañcâmla, “the aggregate of 5 acid plants (the jujube, pomegranate, sorrel, spondias, and citron).” pañcâra, “(a wheel) having 5 spokes.” pañcârcis, “having 5 rays, the planet Mercury.” pañcâṡra, “5-cornered.” pañcâsya, “5-faced; 5 -headed; 5-pointed.” pañcêndriya, “the 5 organs of sense (viz. the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and skin) or the 5 organs of action (viz. hands, feet, larynx, and organs of generation and excretion); having the 5 organs of sense.” pañcaka, “consisting of 5, relating to 5, made of 5; 5 days old; bought with 5; 5 per cent.” pañcaka-māsika, “one who receives or earns 5 per month.” pañcaka-vidhāna, pañcaka-vidhi, and pañcaka-ṡata, “5 percent.” pañcat, “consisting of five.” pañcataya, “fivefold, having five parts or limbs.” pañcatha,“the fifth.” pañcamá, “the fifth; forming the 5th part; the 5th consonant of a Varga; the fifth part, 1/5.” pañcamá-bhāgīya, “belonging to the fifth part.” pañcamá-vat, “having the 5th (note).” pañcamâra, “the 5th spoke in the wheel of time.” pañcamaka, “the fifth.” pañcamin, “being in the fifth of one’s age.” pañcamī, “the fifth day of the half month; the 5th or ablative case (or its terminations), a word in the ablative; a termination of the imperative; (in music) a particular Rāgiṇī or Mūrchanā; a brick having the length of 1/5 (of a Purusha); name of Draupadi.” pañcāṡa, “the 50th + 50.” pañcāṡaka, “50; a collection or aggregate of 50.” pañcāṡac-chas, “by fifties, 50 by 50.” pañcāṡást, “fifty.” pañcāṡata and pañcāṡacti, “fifty.” pañcāṡatka, “consisting of 50; 50 years old.” pañcāṡaddhā, “in fifty parts.” pañcāṡadbhāga, “the 50th part.” pañcāṡad-varsha, “50 years old.” pañcāṡā, “fifty.” pañcika, “having the length of 5.” pañcin, “divided into 5, consisting of 5, fivefold.” pañcī-karaṇa, “making into 5, causing anything to contain all the 5 elements.” pañcāṡad-kṛita, “made into 5.” pāñca-kapāla, “relating to or forming part of an oblation offered in 5 cups.” pāñca-karmika, “relating or applicable to the 5 kinds of treatment.” pāñca-gatika, “consisting of 5 forms of existence.” pāñca-janya, “relating to the 5 races of men.” pāñca-daṡa, “relating to the 15th day of a month.” pāñca-daṡya, “the aggregate of 15.” pāñca-nakha, “made of the skin of an animal with 5 claws.” pāñca-bhautika, “composed of or containing the 5 elements; the assumption of the 5 element.” pāñca-mūlika, “coming from the 5 roots.” pāñca-yajñika, “relating to or included in the 5 great religious acts.” pāñca-rātrika, “lasting 5 nights (days); connected with the Pāñcarātra.” pāñca-vārshika, “5 years old.” pāñca-valkika, “coming from the 5 kinds of bark.” pāñca-vārshika, see above. pāñca-vidhya, “name of a Sūtra treating of the 5 Vidhis of a Sāman.” pāñca-ṡabdika, “the fivefold music.” pāñca-ṡara, “belonging to the (5-arrowed) god of love.” pāñcamāhnika, “belonging to the fifth day.” pāñcamika, “treated of in the fifth book.” pāñcāla, “relating or belonging to or ruling over the Pañcālas; an association of 5 guilds.” pāñcālī, “a princess of the Pañcālas, name of Draupadī.”