sarpanch
sar·panch/ˈsʌɹpʌnt͡ʃ/noun
sarpanch is a noun meaning “The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-R-P-A-N-C-H and has 2 syllables (sar·panch), and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sarpanch is sarpanches.
What does sarpanch mean?
noun
- 1
The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce sarpanch?
- US /ˈsʌɹpʌnt͡ʃ/
Sarpanch has 2 syllables, split sar·panch in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sarpanch.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sarpanch
- sarpanches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sarpanch?
Sarpanch appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Sarpanch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense elected head of a panchayat:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sarpanch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sarpanch come from?
Borrowed from Hindi सरपंच (sarpañc), from Hindi सर (sar, “head”) / Urdu سر (sar, “head; chief”) (from Persian سر (sar, “head; chief, leader”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head; top”)) + Hindi पंच (pañc, “five (number of people in a panchayat council)”) / Urdu پنچ (pañc); from Sanskrit पञ्च (pañca, “five”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).