بانی

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَانٍ (bānin).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑː.ˈniː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.níː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.níː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.níː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.ní]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.níː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔ.ní]

Readings
Classical reading?	bānī
Dari reading?	bānī
Iranian reading?	bâni
Tajik reading?	boni

Noun

بانی • (bâni)

1. founder, instituter

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بانی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic بَنَى (banā)

Arabic بَانٍ (bānin)bor.

Classical Persian بَانِی (bānī)bor.

Urdu بانی (bānī)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَانِی (bānī), borrowed from Arabic بَانٍ (bānin), from بَنَى (banā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.niː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: بَا‧نِی

Noun

بَانِی • (bānī) m (Hindi spelling बानी)

1. founder

Declension

Declension of بانی

	singular	plural
direct	بَانی (bānī)	بَانِیاں (bāniyā̃)
oblique	بَانی (bānī)	بَانِیوں (bāniyō̃)
vocative	بَانی (bānī)	بَانِیو (bāniyō)

Further reading

• “بانی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بانی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بانی”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]