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I can tell you from the second photo that this is a big female Palaemonetes, not a Macrobrachium. How long is it?

Yes, though it might take a few molts for the limb to reattain original size. Decapods generally are pretty good regenerators. Macrobrachium can be real characters, best of luck with this guy.

It is a true shrimp (a member of the Caridea), though there's nothing wrong with calling it a prawn (there's no hard-and-fast difference). It looks like Macrobrachium scabriculum, though it might not be that species precisely ... large dominant male of a South or SE Asian Macrobrachium for...