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Panipat

Panipat proper noun: a city and district of Haryana, India, where three important battles were fought.

Proper noun

Panipat

  1. A city and district of Haryana, India, where three important battles were fought.

Panipat meaning in Sanskrit

Panipat in Sanskrit

Panipat, the most likely modern counterpart of Pāṇḍuprastha
पाण्डुप्रस्थ pāṇḍúprastha

Origin of Panipat

Borrowed from Hindi पानीपत (pānīpat), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀧𑀢𑁆𑀢 (paṇṇapatta) or 𑀧𑀦𑁆𑀦𑀧𑀢𑁆𑀢 (pannapatta), from Sanskrit पाण्डुप्रस्थ (pāṇḍuprastha, “City of Pāṇḍu”), from पाण्डु (pāṇḍu, “A character from the Mahabharata”) and प्रस्थ (prastha, “city”).

Questions about Panipat

What does Panipat mean?
Panipat means a city and district of Haryana, India, where three important battles were fought.
What is Panipat in Sanskrit?
Panipat in Sanskrit is पाण्डुप्रस्थ (pāṇḍúprastha). See Panipat meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is Panipat?
Panipat is a proper noun.

Words near Panipat in the dictionary

  1. paniolos
  2. Panionian
  3. Panionic
  4. Panionion
  5. Panionium
  6. Panipat
  7. panipenem
  8. paniphal
  9. paniphals
  10. Panipuan
  11. panipuri

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Panipat (page history and authors); पाण्डुप्रस्थ (Sanskrit) (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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