As a Hindi name
पाना · masculine
spanner, wrench
पाना
to get, receive; to obtain; to win, attain, achieve; to find, come upon, meet
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit प्रापयति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra- Sanskrit प्र- (pra-) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- Sanskrit आप् (āp) Proto-Indo-E…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
fit to be associated with, admissible into the row of caste-fellows at meals.
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
pāṅktya (Mn.) mfn. fit to be associated with, admissible into the row of caste-fellows at meals.
pāṅktya m. (-ṅktyaḥ) A Brahman who is or may be worthy to eat in a respectable society at sacrifices, &c. E. paṃkti an assembly, and yañ aff.
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