غنڈہ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• غنڈا (ġunḍā)
• گنڈا (gunḍā)

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑁄𑀁𑀟 / गोंड / ಗೋಂಡ (goṃḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit गोण्ड (goṇḍa, “Gond”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɣʊn.ɖɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: غُنْ‧ڈَہ

Noun

غُنْڈَہ • (ġunḍah) m (Hindi spelling गुंडा)

1. goon, hooligan

   Synonym: بَدْمَعاش (badmaʻāś)

Declension

Declension of غنڈہ
	singular	plural
direct	غُنْڈَہ (ġunḍah)	غُنْڈے (ġunḍe)
oblique	غُنْڈے (ġunḍe)	غُنْڈوں (ġunḍõ)
vocative	غُنْڈے (ġunḍe)	غُنْڈو (ġunḍo)

Descendants

• → English: goonda

References

• “غنڈا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “غنڐه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 773
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “غنڈه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 446
• “غنڈہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “غنڐه”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gōṇḍa¹”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 229