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pun•kah
Pronunciation: (pung'ku), [key]—
n.
(esp. in India) a fan, esp. a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
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adj.
of, pertaining to, used on, or working a punkah:
punkah ropes. Also,pun'ka.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.