پنجاب

پنجاب

1. Arabic spelling of Pəncab:
   1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
   2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
   3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian پنجاب (panjāb).

پَنْجاب (transliteration needed)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• Uyghur: پەنجاب (penjab)
• Uzbek: Panjob

Borrowed from Persian پنجاب (panjâb).

پَنْجاب • (Pencâb)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)

• Turkish: Pencap
• → Bulgarian: Пенджаб (Pendžab)
• → French: Pendjab
• → Macedonian: Пенџаб (Pendžab)
• → Polish: Pendżab
• → Portuguese: Pendjab
• → Russian: Пенджа́б (Pendžáb)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: Пенџаб
  • Latin script: Pendžab

• Şemseddin Sami (1889) “پنجاب”, in Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (in Ottoman Turkish), volume II, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1535

Borrowed from Classical Persian پنجاب (panjāb).

پَنْجاب • (panjāb)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• پنجابی (panjābi)

Compound of پنج (panj, “five”) +‎ آب (âb, “river”), a calque of Sanskrit पञ्चनद (pañcanada, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from पञ्च (pañca, “five”) and नद (nada, “river”).

پنجاب • (panjāb / panjâb) (Tajik spelling Панҷоб)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• پنجابی (panjâbi)

• → Arabic: الْبَنْجَاب (al-banjāb)
• → Azerbaijani: Pəncab
• → Bashkir: Пәнжаб (Pənjab)
• → Chagatai: پَنْجاب
  • Uyghur: پەنجاب (penjab)
  • Uzbek: Panjob
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पंजाब (pañjāb)

  Urdu: پَنْجاب (panjāb)

• → Ottoman Turkish: پَنْجاب (Pencâb)
  • Turkish: Pencap
  • → Bulgarian: Пенджаб (Pendžab)
  • → French: Pendjab
  • → Macedonian: Пенџаб (Pendžab)
  • → Polish: Pendżab
  • → Portuguese: Pendjab
  • → Russian: Пенджа́б (Pendžáb)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: Пенџаб
    • Latin script: Pendžab
• → Pashto: پَنْجاب (panjāb)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਪੰਜਾਬ (pañjāb)
  • Shahmukhi script: پَن٘جاب (pañjāb)
• → Sindhi: پَنْجابُ (panjābu)
• → Tatar: Пәнҗаб (Päncab)
• → Turkmen: Penjap

• Steingass, Francis Joseph. A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1892.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “Punjaub”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 741.

• Macdonell, Arthur Anthony. A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout. London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Borrowed from Classical Persian پنجاب (panjāb).

• IPA^(key): /pənˈd͡ʒäːb/

پنجاب • (pañjāb) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪੰਜਾਬ)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
   • Babu Rajab Ali, Anokha Rajab Ali compiled by Dr. Atam Hamrahi page 101

     پنج دریا اس دیش دے، تاہیؤں کہن پنجاب۔ راوی، ستلج، بیاس جی، جہلم اتے چناب۔

     pañj dariā es desh de, tāhīũ kahiṇ pañjāb. rāvī, satluj, biās jī, jehlam ate chanāb.

     Five rivers of this region, reason it is called Punjab. Ravi, Satluj, Bias, Jhelum and Chenab.

2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• پنجابی (pañjābī)

From Classical Persian پنجاب (panjāb).

• IPA^(key): [panɟɑːbʊ]

پنجاب • (panjābu) m

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• پنجابي (panjābī)

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Borrowed from Classical Persian پَنْجَاب (panjāb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pən.d͡ʒɑːb/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːb
• Hyphenation: پَنْ‧جاب

پَنْجاب • (panjāb) m (Hindi spelling पंजाब)

1. Punjab (a geographical region in South Asia, politically divided between India and Pakistan)
2. Punjab (a state in northern India)
3. Punjab (a province in Pakistan)

• پَنْجابی (panjābī)

• “پنجاب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پنجاب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.