پانڈو

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पाण्डव (pāṇḍava).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑːn.ɖəʋ/

Proper noun

پانْڈَو • (pānḍau) m (Hindi spelling पांडव) (Hinduism)

1. a Pandava
2. (in the plural) Pandavas (used to collectively refer to the five Pandavas)

Declension

Declension of پانڈو
	singular	plural
direct	پانڈَو (pāṇḍav)	پانڈَو (pāṇḍav)
oblique	پانڈَو (pāṇḍav)	پانڈَووں (pāṇḍavõ)
vocative	پانڈَو (pāṇḍav)	پانڈَوو (pāṇḍavo)

Further reading

• “پانڈو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “[1]”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “पाण्डव”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.