पंजाब

Borrowed from Classical Persian پنجاب (panjāb, “[Land of] the Five Rivers”), from پنج (panj, “five”) and آب (āb, “water”), which is based on Sanskrit पञ्चनद (pañcanada).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /pən.d͡ʒɑːb/, [pɐ̃n.d͡ʒäːb]
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

पंजाब • (pañjāb) m (Urdu spelling پَنْجَاب)

1. Punjab, Panjab (a state of India)
2. Punjab, Panjab (a province of Pakistan)
3. Punjab, Panjab (a region of South Asia)

• पंजाबी (pañjābī)

• (states of India) भारत (bhārat) के प्रदेश (pradeś); अरुणाचल प्रदेश (aruṇācal pradeś), आसाम (āsām), आंध्र प्रदेश (āndhra pradeś), उड़ीसा (uṛīsā), उत्तर प्रदेश (uttar pradeś), उत्तराखण्ड (uttarākhaṇḍ), कर्नाटक (karnāṭak), केरलम／केरल (kerlam), गुजरात (gujrāt), गोवा (govā), छत्तीसगढ़ (chattīsgaṛh), जम्मू और कश्मीर (jammū aur kaśmīr), झारखंड (jhārkhaṇḍ), तमिल नाडु (tamil nāḍu), तेलंगाना (telaṅgānā), त्रिपुरा (tripurā), नागालैंड (nāgālaiṇḍ), पंजाब (pañjāb), पश्चिम बंगाल (paścim baṅgāl), बिहार (bihār), मणिपुर (maṇipur), मध्य प्रदेश (madhya pradeś), महाराष्ट्र (mahārāṣṭra), मिज़ोरम (mizoram), मेघालय (meghālay), राजस्थान (rājasthān), सिक्किम (sikkim), हरियाणा (hariyāṇā), हिमाचल प्रदेश (himācal pradeś) ^{(Category: hi:States of India)}

• दोआब (doāb)

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “पंजाब”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 386
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “पंजाब”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 2741
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पंजाब”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 587
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پنج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 270
• “पंजाब”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.