بندہ

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

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bən.d̪äː/
• Hyphenation: بَنْ‧دَہ

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

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

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

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”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bən.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: بَنْ‧دَہ

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

1. (colloquial, Punjab) person, man

   Synonyms: آدَمی‎ (ādamī), شَخْص‎ (śaxṣ)

2. servant, man of God (or loosely, slave)

   Synonym: غُلام‎ (ġulām)

3. (figuratively) male partner (in a relationship)

• “بندہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.