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panam

panam is the alternative form of fanam.

Meaning of fanam

Noun

fanam (plural fanams)

  1. (historical) A former currency in southern India.
    • The Carwar factory chief replied that the effects had realized 13,146 rupees 1 fanam and 12 budgerooks; that Harvey had left a will dated the 8th April, 1708, and that therefore nothing had been paid to Mrs. Chown.1907, John Biddulph, The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago

Forms of panam

pluralpanams

Phrases with panam

Questions about panam

What is panam the alternative form of?
Panam is the alternative form of fanam.

Words near panam in the dictionary

  1. panakam
  2. Panakhyda
  3. panallergen
  4. panallergenic
  5. panallergens
  6. panam
  7. Panam Ningthou
  8. panama
  9. Panama Canal
  10. Panama Canal Zone
  11. Panama City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panam (page history and authors); fanam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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