پنجہ

panja (rel. n. from panj, q.v.), s.m. An aggregate of five; the fiveof a suit of cards, or the five on a die; a cast or turn up of five with dice;—the hand with the fingers extended; claw, paw (of a tiger, etc.); clutch, grasp, possession, power; the five-fingered instrument of the religious mendicant; a sort of link or torch resembling the five fingers, or having five branches (=panj-shāḵẖa); a hand made of ivory (to scratch the back with); the fore part of a foot or shoe;—cinq-foil:—panja-phernā(-kā), To twist or turn round the hand of an adversary by interlocking fingers with him; (fig.) to overcome, overpower:—panja karnā(-se), To interlock fingers with an adversary and endeavour to twist his hand or wrist:—panjakash, s.m. An iron instrument resembling a hand with which wrestlersexercise themselves by locking their fingers into those of the instrument;—a kind of bread bearing the marks of five fingers:—panja laṛānā(-se) = panja karnā, q.v.:—panja le-jāna (-se), To overcome an antagonist by twisting his hand or wrist, etc. (=panja phernā); to carry off the palm:—panjoṅ-ke bal ćalnā, v.n. To walk on tip-toe; to walk on stilts, to strut:—panja mārnā, v.t. To claw; to snap or snatch at;—panja-i-maryam, s.f. A grass resembling a pair of claws interlocked:—panje-meṅlānā, v.t. To get hold of, get into one's clutches; to bring under subjection:—panje-wār, adj. Famished, very wretched.