فَنْزَجٌ
Root: فنزج
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فَنْزَجٌ
A leaping, jumping, springing, or bounding; and so
فَنْزَجَةٌ : or the game, or sport, called
دَسْتَبَنْد, [or دَسُتْبَنْد, a Pers. word,] meaning the dance of the Magians, or a dance of the Persians (العَجَم), in which the performers hold one another by the hand; arabicized from [the Pers.] پَنْجَهْ [app. as meaning “ a gripe with the hand ”]: or a game, or sport, of the Nabathæans, 1. called in Pers.
پَنْجَگَانْ [app. from پَنْجَهْ and گَانْ, from the joining of hands]; a game, or sport, played by the Nabathæans in joyous exultation: occurring in a saying of El-'Ajjáj cited in art. عكف.
2 And, as some say, The five embolismal, or supplementary days, which are added at the end of the twelfth month of the Persians [and called by them پَنْجَهءِ دُزْدِيدَهْ].
2 And, as some say, The five embolismal, or supplementary days, which are added at the end of the twelfth month of the Persians [and called by them پَنْجَهءِ دُزْدِيدَهْ].
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