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

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْدَه (banda) (sense 5 is a semantic loan from 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”). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi بندہ (banda),

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)
6. (colloquial, especially Punjabic Urdu, Delhiite) person, man

   Synonyms: آدَمی (ādamī), شَخْص (śaxṣ)

7. (formal, polite) servant (used to refer to oneself humbly)

Declension

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

Further reading

More information

• “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