بندہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بنده‎ (banda) (also 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. (colloquial, Punjab) person, man
    Synonyms: آدَمی‎ (ādamī), شَخْص‎ (śaxṣ)
  2. servant (or loosely, slave)
    Synonym: غُلام‎ (ġulām)
  3. (figuratively) male partner (in a relationship)

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

References
  • “بندہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بندہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • “بندہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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