पञ्चक (pañcaka) is a Sanskrit word meaning consisting of, relating to, or made of five, bought with 5, 5 percent, taking 5 per cent, any collection or aggregate of five, a particular caste. Its 22 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Adjectival: Consisting of or Relating to Five, Noun: An Aggregate/Collection of Five; A Pentad, Proper Name: Attendant/Companion of Skanda.
(H2) [Printed book page 578,2] पञ्चक (pañcaka)mfn. consisting of 5, relating to 5, made of 5 &c., Manu-smṛti (Title) ; Mahābhārata (Title) ; Suśruta (Title) ; Purāṇas (Literary category) ; 5 days old (see below) [ID=114129]
consisting of five, five days old, or the number five
पञ्चक (pañcaka) [Printed book page 149-2] पञ्चक (pañcaka) pañca-ka, a. consisting of five; five days old; withśata,n. five per cent; n. the number five (πεντάϛ); (páñca) -kapāla,a. (ī) distributed in five dishes; -kṛtvas,ad. five times; -gavya,n.sg. & pl. five products of the cow (milk, curds, butter, urine, dung); -guṇa,a. five times greater than (ab.); -grāmī,f. group of five villages; -catvāriṃśat,f. forty-five; -candra,m.N.; -cūda, a. having five tufts of hair; -janá,m.pl. the five races or kinds: gods, men, Gandharvas and Apsarases, serpents, and Manes; sg. man: ī-ya,a. sacred to the five races; -tantra: -ka,n.T.of a collection of fables in five books; -tapas,a. (ascetic) exposing himself to five fires (one at each cardinal point, with the sun above); -taya,a. (ī) fivefold; -tā, f. fivefold amount; dissolution of the body into the five elements, death; -tīrthī,f. the five sacred bathing-places; N.of a Tīrtha; -triṃśat: -ī,f. thirty-five; -tva,n. fiveness; the five elements, earth, water, fire, air, and ether; dissolution into the five elements, death: -ṃ gam, die; -daśá,a. (ī) fifteenth; consisting of fifteen; increased by fifteen; ī,f. fifteenth day in a half-month; -daśan, a.pl. fifteen; -daśa-vārṣika,a. fifteen years old; -daśa‿aha,m. period of fifteen days: i-ka,a. lasting fifteen days; -dhā, ad. in five parts, fivefold; -dhātu,n.sg. the five elements. [ID=10998]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Relating to or consisting of five.
2. A collection of five.
3. A field of battle.
पञ्च (pañca)क (pañcaka) [Printed book page 492] पञ्च (pañca)क (pañcaka) mfn. (-कः (-kaḥ)-का-कं (-kaṃ) (-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ)) Five or relating to five, made of five, bought with five, &c. m. (-कः (-kaḥ)) Any collection or aggregate of five, a five. n. (-कं (-kaṃ)) A field of battle.
E. पञ्च (pañca) five, and कन् (kan) aff.
[ID=22814]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Relating to five. 2. A group of five. 3. Field of battle.
पञ्चक (pañcaka) [Printed book page 439-a] पञ्चक (pañcaka)(कः-का-कं) ((kaḥ-kā-kaṃ))a. Relating to five. m. A five. n. Field of battle. [ID=22286]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Consisting of, relating to, or made of five. 2. A collection of five. 3. A field of battle.
पञ्च (pañca)क (pañcaka) [Printed book page 412-a] पञ्च (pañca)क (pañcaka)
mfn. (-कः (-kaḥ)-का-कं (-kaṃ) (-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ)) Five or relating to five, made of five, bought with five, &c.
m. (-कः (-kaḥ)) Any collection or aggregate of five, a five.
n. (-कं (-kaṃ)) A field of battle.
E. पञ्च (pañca) five, and कन् (kan) aff.
[ID=22799]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Consisting of five. 2. Five in the hundred. 3. The number five. 4. A collection of five.
पञ्चक (pañcaka) [Printed book page 0499-b] पञ्चक (pañcaka)pañcaka,i. e.pañcan + ka,
I.adj.1. Consisting of five, Man. 2,
92. 2. With śata, Five in the hun-
dred, Man. 8, 139. II.n.1. The num-
ber five, πεντάς śata-, Five hundred,
Pañc. 134, 16. 2. A collection of five,
Bhāg. P. 3, 11, 15. — Comp.Pañcap°,
i. e.pañcan-,n. the twenty-five (prin-
ciples of the Sāṅkhya philosophy),
Rām. 3, 53, 42.
[ID=7953]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Consisting of five or five days old. 2. An aggregate of five.
पञ्चक (pañcaka) [Printed book page 289] पञ्चक (pañcaka)a. consisting of five, five days old, etc.; w.शत (śata)n. five per cent. —m. a man's name; f.पन्चिका (pancikā) a book of 5 chapters; n. aggregate of five. [ID=17536]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Consisting of, relating to, or made of five.
2. Any collection or aggregate of five.
3. An attendant of Skanda.
4. Each book of the Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa.
5. A game played with five shells.
6. A field of battle.
पञ्चक (pañcaka) [Printed book page 0524-c] Pañcaka, as, ā, am, consisting of five, relating to five, made of five, bought with five &c., taking five per cent; (as), m. any collection or aggregate of five; N. of one of the attendants of Skanda; (ikā), f., N. of each book of the Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa (as consisting of five Adhyāyas); N. of a game played with five shells; (am), n. an aggregate of five, πεντάς; a field of battle. [ID=26718]
पञ्चक (pañcaka)m. any collection or aggregate of 5 Horace H. Wilson, author of first Sanskrit-English dictionary in 1819 (Author) (also n.; cf.g.अर्धर्चा (ardharcā)दि (di)) [ID=114133]
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Definitions on this page come from 10 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
