بندر

See also: تندر and تنذر

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian بندر (bandar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban.dar/

Noun

بَنْدَر • (bandar) m (plural بَنَادِر (banādir))

1. port
2. harbour

Declension

Declension of noun بَنْدَر (bandar)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَنْدَر bandar	الْبَنْدَر al-bandar	بَنْدَر bandar
nominative	بَنْدَرٌ bandarun	الْبَنْدَرُ al-bandaru	بَنْدَرُ bandaru
accusative	بَنْدَرًا bandaran	الْبَنْدَرَ al-bandara	بَنْدَرَ bandara
genitive	بَنْدَرٍ bandarin	الْبَنْدَرِ al-bandari	بَنْدَرِ bandari
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَنْدَرَيْن bandarayn	الْبَنْدَرَيْن al-bandarayn	بَنْدَرَيْ bandaray
nominative	بَنْدَرَانِ bandarāni	الْبَنْدَرَانِ al-bandarāni	بَنْدَرَا bandarā
accusative	بَنْدَرَيْنِ bandarayni	الْبَنْدَرَيْنِ al-bandarayni	بَنْدَرَيْ bandaray
genitive	بَنْدَرَيْنِ bandarayni	الْبَنْدَرَيْنِ al-bandarayni	بَنْدَرَيْ bandaray
plural	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَنَادِر banādir	الْبَنَادِر al-banādir	بَنَادِر banādir
nominative	بَنَادِرُ banādiru	الْبَنَادِرُ al-banādiru	بَنَادِرُ banādiru
accusative	بَنَادِرَ banādira	الْبَنَادِرَ al-banādira	بَنَادِرَ banādira
genitive	بَنَادِرَ banādira	الْبَنَادِرِ al-banādiri	بَنَادِرِ banādiri

Descendants

• → Swahili: bandari

Proper noun

بَنْدَر • (bandar) m

1. a male given name

Ottoman Turkish

Proper noun

بندر • (Bender)

1. Bender (Moldavian city)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• > Turkish: Bender (inherited)
• → Romanian: Bender m
• ⇒ Middle Ukrainian: [Term?] m pl
  • > Ukrainian: Бенде́ри m pl (Bendéry) (inherited)
  • ⇒ Old Lithuanian: [Term?] m pl
    • > Lithuanian: Bendèrai m pl (inherited)
  • → Polish: Bendery nvir
  • → Middle Russian: [Term?] m pl
    • > Russian: Бенде́ры m pl (Bendéry) (inherited)

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْدَر (bandar).

Noun

بَنْدَر • (bandar) m

1. port; harbour
2. border (crossing)

Declension

Declension of بندر

	singular	plural
direct	بندر (bandar)	بندرونه (bandaruna)
oblique	بندر (bandar)	بندرونو (bandaruno)
vocative	بندره (bandara)	بندرونو (bandaruno)

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ban.ˈdar/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bän̪.d̪áɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bän̪.d̪áɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bän̪.d̪áɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bän̪.d̪áɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæn̪.d̪ǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bän̪.d̪áɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bandar
Dari reading?	bandar
Iranian reading?	bandar
Tajik reading?	bandar

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	بندر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бандар

بندر • (bandar) (plural بنادر, or بندرها (bandar-hā / bandar-hâ), Tajik spelling бандар)

1. port
2. harbour

Derived terms

• بندری (bandari)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بَنْدَر (bandar)
  • → Swahili: bandari
• → Urdu: بندر
• → Gujarati: બંદર (bandar)
• → Malay: bandar
  • > Indonesian: bandar (inherited)
  • → Iranun: bandar
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦤ꧀ꦢꦂ (bandar)
    • → Indonesian: bandar (semantic loan)
  • → Maranao: bandar

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian بندر (bandar). Compare Bengali বন্দর (bondor), Dhivehi ބަނދަރު (baⁿdaru).

Noun

بَنْدَر • (bandar) m (Hindi spelling बंदर)

1. port, harbour

   Synonym: بندرگاہ

Declension

Declension of بندر

	singular	plural
direct	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَر (bandar)
oblique	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَروں (bandarõ)
vocative	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَرو (bandaro)

Etymology 2

Contracted from Old Hindi बांदर (bāṃdara), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀭 (vāṇara), from Sanskrit वानर (vānara). The -d- is excrescent between -n- and -r-, for which compare پَنْدَرَہ (pandara).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bən.d̪əɾ/
• Rhymes: -əɾ

Noun

بَنْدَر • (bandar) m (Hindi spelling बंदर)

1. monkey

Declension

Declension of بندر

	singular	plural
direct	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَر (bandar)
oblique	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَروں (bandarõ)
vocative	بَنْدَر (bandar)	بَنْدَرو (bandaro)

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vānara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “بندر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 275
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بندر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 169
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بندر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 119
• “بندر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “بندر”, 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, page 280
• “بندر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.