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panji

panji is the alternative form of punji.

Meaning of punji

Noun

punji (plural punjis)

  1. A sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other biohazardous material, set in the ground to wound or impale enemy soldiers.
    • Ordinary punjis will penetrate thick uniforms or the upper part of a shoe.2013, Gordon L. Rottman, World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 19

Proper noun capitalized: Panji

Panji

  1. Panji, prince and main character in the Panji tales

Forms of panji

pluralpanjis

Origin of panji

Borrowed from Javanese Panji.

Questions about panji

What does panji mean?
Panji means panji, prince and main character in the Panji tales.
What is panji the alternative form of?
Panji is the alternative form of punji.
What part of speech is panji?
Panji is a proper noun.

Words near panji in the dictionary

  1. panjarapoles
  2. Panjaubee
  3. Panjaubees
  4. panjee
  5. panjees
  6. panji
  7. Panjikidze
  8. Panjim
  9. Panjin
  10. panjis
  11. Panjnad

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: panji (page history and authors); Panji (page history and authors); punji (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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