بنگ

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vâng⁠/),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”); compare Northern Kurdish bang, Persian بانگ (bâng), English bang.

• IPA^(key): /bonɡ/

بنگ (bong)

1. sound

From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭭𐭢 (bng /⁠bang⁠/, “henbane”). Cognate with Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga, “hemp”).

بنگ • (bang)

1. hashish, narcotic made from Cannabis sativa

   Synonym: حشیش (hašiš)

2. henbane, narcotic made from Hyoscyamus niger

   Synonym: بنگ‌دانه (bang-dâne)

• بنگاب (bangâb)

• G. Gnoli, ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī (1988-12-15) “Bang”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, retrieved 2019-11-13

Borrowed from Classical Persian بنگ (bang), doublet of بھانگ (bhāṅg), which is inherited.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəŋɡ/

بنگ • (baṅg) f (Hindi spelling बंग)

1. bhang, cannabis

   Synonym: بھانگ (bhāṅg)

• بَن٘گاب (bangāb, “cannabis-water”)
• بَن٘گی (bangī, “cannabis-user”)

• “بنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بنگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “بنگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بنگ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “بنگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC