بانسری

Urdu

بانسری

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás

Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśa)

Sanskrit -ई (-ī)

Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī)

Prakrit -𑀮- (-la-)

Braj बाँसुरी (bā̃surī)bor.

Urdu بان٘سُری (bā̃surī)

Borrowed from Braj बाँसुरी (bā̃surī). Displaced بَانسْلِی (bānslī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑ̃ː.sʊ.ɾiː/, /bɑ̃ːs.ɾiː/

Noun

بان٘سُری or بان٘سْری • (bā̃surī or bā̃srī) f (Hindi spelling बाँसुरी or बाँसरी)

1. (music) bansuri, a type of flute made from bamboo

Declension

Declension of بانسری

	singular	plural
direct	بان٘سُری (bā̃surī)	بان٘سُرِیاں (bā̃suriyā̃)
oblique	بان٘سُری (bā̃surī)	بان٘سُرِیوں (bā̃suriyō̃)
vocative	بان٘سُری (bā̃surī)	بان٘سُرِیو (bā̃suriyō)

Further reading

• “بانسری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بانسری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بانسری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 98
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بانسری”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 127
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بانسری”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 215