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

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

Noun

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

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

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

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

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, Punjab) 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
• 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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC