پھانسی

फांसी phāṅsī[S. पाश+यं], s.f. Noose, loop, snare; halter; strangulation, hanging, death by hanging: phāṅsīpānā, phāṅsīpaṛnā, v.n. To be hanged:—phāṅsī ćaṛhnā, v.n. To have the noose put on the neck; to mount the scaffold, to be hanged:—phāṅsīcaṛhānā, phāṅsī-kādenā, v.t. To strangle, to hang:—phāṅsīdene-wālā, s.m. A hangman:—phāṅsī-kāṭh, phāṅsī-kākhambā, s.m. Gibbet, gallows:—phāṅsī-gār, phāṅsī-gar, s.m. A strangler; a robber and murderer who strangles his victims by means of a turban or cloth, a ṭhag.