بندہ

See also: بنده

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بنده (banda). By surface analysis, بند (band, close; confined) + ہ (ah). Doublet of بَنّھݨا (bannhṇā, to tie) and بانھا (bānhā).

Pronunciation

Noun

بَنْدَہ • (banda) m (feminine بندی, Gurmukhi spelling ਬੰਦਾ)

  1. human, person
  2. slave, servant
  3. (figuratively) male partner

Declension

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Further reading

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بندہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • بندہ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi بندہ (banda), borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْدَه (banda) (sense 5 influenced by Punjabi بَنْدَہ (banda) / ਬੰਦਾ (bandā, person; man)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (to bind). By surface analysis, بند (band, close; block; confined) + ہ (ah). Doublet of باندھنا (bāndhnā, to tie).

Pronunciation

Noun

بَنْدَہ • (banda) m (feminine بندی, Hindi spelling बंदा)

  1. slave, servant, bondsman
    Synonym: غُلام (ġulām)
  2. worshipper, man of God
  3. human, creature
  4. male partner, man (in a relationship)
  5. (colloquial, especially Punjab, Delhi) person, man
    Synonyms: آدَمی (ādamī), شَخْص (śaxṣ)

Declension

Declension of بندہ
singular plural
direct بندہ (bandah) بندے (bande)
oblique بندے (bande) بندوں (bandõ)
vocative بندے (bande) بندو (bando)

Further reading

  • بندہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • بندہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بندہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بنده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 170
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “بنده”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 276
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    John Shakespear (1834) “بنده”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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