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The original drink was named panj, which is Persian for "five".
LearnHub Activities 2008
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The original drink was named panj, which is Persian for "five".
LearnHub Activities 2008
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The original drink was named panj, which is Persian for "five".
LearnHub Activities 2008
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Calling his five disciples "panj piyarey" ( "the five beloved ones") it was Guru Gobind who named the Sikh fighting fraternity the Khalsa.
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[1] Ludhiana, a city, not the capital of the Panjab: 'the land of five rivers' _ (panj-ab).
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Latcherdom me a tani kali chavi of panj besh chorin levina avri miro curro.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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The vernacular word _pânch_, like the Persian _panj_, means 'five'.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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The word "Punjab" is a combination of the Persian words panj (five), and ab (water), giving the literal meaning of the "Land of Five Rivers".
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In the firft fimple forms of barter, exchange muft be limited by the mutual wants of the perfons concerned:. uniefs each panj needed the fuperfluities of the other, there could be no commerce.
The Monthly Review 1776
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_trin_, _shtor_, _panj_, -- he proceeded to count in Hindustani or Persian, in which the same words from one to ten are almost identical with Romany.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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