Vanka (adj. -- n.) [cp. Vedic vanka & vakra bending; also Ved. vanku moving, fluttering, walking slant; vañcati to waver, walk crooked. Cp. Lat. con -- vexus "convex," Ags. wōh "wrong," Goth. wāhs; Ohg. wanga cheek, and others. -- The Dhtp 5 gives "koṭilya" as meaning of vank. Another Pāli form isvakka (q. v.). The Prk. forms are both vakka & vanka: Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 74], I. (adj.). -- 1. crooked, bent, curved M i.31 (+jimha); S iv.118 (read v -- daṇḍā); Vin ii.116 (suttā vankā honti); J i.9 (of kāja); iv.362 (˚daṇḍa), PvA 51. With ref. to a kind of vīṇā at VvA 281. -- 2. (fig.) crooked, deceitful, dishonest J iii.313 (of crows: kākānaŋ nāmaŋ C.); vi.524; Pv iv.134 (a˚); Sn 270 (probably to be read dhanka as SnA 303, =kāka). -- 3. doubtful, deceitful, deceptive, i. e. haunted Vv 843, cp. VvA 334. -- II. (m.) -- 1. a bend, nook, curve (of ponds) J ii.189; vi.333 (sahassa˚). -- 2. a hook J v.269. -- 3. a fish-hook D ii.266; Th 1, 749; J vi.437. -- On vanka in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, 131.

 -- angula a crooked finger A iii.6. -- âtivankin having curves upon curves (in its horns), with very crooked antlers J i.160 (said of a deer). -- gata running in bends or crooked (of a river) J i.289. -- ghasta (a fish) having swallowed the hook D ii.266; J vi.113. -- chidda a crooked hole DA i.112. -- dāṭha having a bent fang (of a boar) J ii.405.