بنده

See also: بندة and بندہ

Pashto

Etymology

From Persian بنده (bande).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban.ˈd̪a/

Noun

بنده • (bandá) m

1. servant
2. slave

Declension

declension of بنده

	singular		plural
direct	بنده (banda)		بندهګان (bandagān)
oblique	بنده (banda)		بندهګانو (bandagāno)
vocative	بنده (banda)		بندهګانو (bandagāno)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bndk' /⁠bandag⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎭𐎣 (badaka). Compare Sanskrit बन्धक (bandhaka). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”).

By surface analysis, بند (band, present stem of بستن (bastan, “to bind”)) +‎ ـه (-e).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ban.ˈda]

 

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

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

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

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

Readings
Classical reading?	banda
Dari reading?	banda
Iranian reading?	bande
Tajik reading?	banda

Noun

Dari	بنده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	банда

بَنْدِه • (bande)

1. servant, slave, bondsman

   Synonyms: برده (barde), غُلام (ğolâm), چاکر (čâker), نوکر (nowkar)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 211:

     نمی‌خواهم سلیمی پادشاهی بندهٔ یارم
     که من شاهنشهی از بندگی خویشتن دارم

     na-mē-xwāham salīmī pādišāhī banda-yi yāram
     ki man šāhinšahī az bandagī-yi xwēštan dāram

     I, Selim, do not want the kingdom; I am the beloved's servant,
     For I have an empire out of my own servitude.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bəndə
• → Bashkir: бәндә (bəndə)
• → Bengali: বান্দা (banda)
• → Chagatai: بنده
  • Uyghur: بەندە (bende)
  • Uzbek: banda
• → Gujarati: બંદો (bando)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बंदा (bandā)

  Urdu: بَنْدَہ (banda)

• → Kazakh: пенде (pende)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بنده (bende)
  • Turkish: bende
• → Pashto: بنده (banda)
• → Punjabi:
  • → Gurmukhi script: ਬੰਦਾ (bandā)
  • → Shahmukhi script: بَنْدَہ (banda)
• → Turkmen: bende

Pronoun

Dari	بنده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	банда

بَنْدِه • (bande)

1. (humble) I, me

   Synonym: مَن (man)

Usage notes

• In humble deference to the addressee.

Further reading

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