bande

See also: Bande, bandé, bände, Bände, and ban-dè

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Danish

Etymology

Verb

bande (imperative band, infinitive at bande, present tense bander, past tense bandede, perfect tense har bandet)

1. to curse, to use offensive language

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

bande

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of bannen

Anagrams

• baden

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃d/

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Etymology 1

From Frankish *binda (“join, link”), cognate with English bind, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).

Noun

bande f (plural bandes)

1. band, strip
2. stripe
3. strip (e.g. magnetic strip)
4. (billiards) cushion
5. (heraldry) bend

Derived terms

• bande d'arrêt d'urgence
• bande de Gaza
• bande dessinée

• bande magnétique
• bande perforée

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan banda (“regiment of troops”), from West Germanic *banda or Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰 (bandwa).

Noun

bande f (plural bandes)

1. band, group, gang, troupe (of people, etc)
2. pack (of wolves)
3. (bande de) pack of, bunch of (used before epithets addressed to more than one person), you

   Bande de voyous!

   You hooligans!

Etymology 3

see bander

Verb

bande

1. first-person singular present indicative of bander
2. third-person singular present indicative of bander
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bander
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bander
5. second-person singular imperative of bander

Further reading

• “bande” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

bande f

1. plural of banda

Anagrams

• benda

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Middle English

Noun

bande

1. Alternative form of band