Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

فَنْزَجٌ A leaping, jumping, springing, or bounding; and soفَنْزَجَةٌ↓: (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), (Ṣ, Ḳ,) in which the performers hold one another by the hand; (Lth, Ṣ, O, Ḳ;) arabicized from [the Pers.] پَنْجَهْ [app. as meaning “a gripe with the hand”]: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a game, or sport, of the Nabathæans, 1. called in Pers. پَنْجَگَانْ [app. from پَنْجَهْ and گَانْ, from the joining of hands]; (ISk, O;) a game, or sport, played by the Nabathæans in joyous exultation: (IAạr, O:) occurring in a saying of El-ʼAjjáj 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 پَنْجَهءِ دُزْدِيدَهْ]. (IDrd, O, L.)