ف • ن • ز • ج

A leaping, jumping, springing, or bounding; and so ↓ فَنْزَجَةٌ: (L:) or the game, or sport, called دَسْتَبَنْد, [or دَسُتْبَنْد, a Pers. word,] meaning the dance of the Magians, (Lth, O, L,) or a dance of the Persians (العَجَم), (S, K,) in which the performers hold one another by the hand; (Lth, S, O, K;) arabicized from [the Pers.] Pَنْجَهْ [app. as meaning “ a gripe with the hand ”]: (S, K:) or a game, or sport, of the Nabathæans, 1. called in Pers. PَنْجَGَانْ [app. from Pَنْجَهْ and Gَانْ, from the joining of hands]; (ISk, O;) a game, or sport, played by the Nabathæans in joyous exultation: (IAar, O:) occurring in a saying of El-'Ajjáj cited in art. عكف. (TA. See 1 in that art.) 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 Pَنْجَهءِ دُزْدِيدَهْ]. (IDrd, O, L.)

: see the preceding paragraph.