बवंडर

Hindi

Etymology tree

Sanskrit वातमण्डल (vātamaṇḍala)

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwaHyúš

Sanskrit वायु (vāyu)

Sanskrit *मण्ड (maṇḍa)?

Sanskrit -ल (-la)?

Sanskrit मण्डल (maṇḍala)

Sanskrit वायुमण्डल (vāyumaṇḍala)

Hindi बवंडर (bavaṇḍar)

Inherited from Sanskrit वातमण्डल (vātamaṇḍala, “whirlwind”) or वायुमण्डल (vāyumaṇḍala, “whirlwind”). In either case, the first part is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus a cognate with English wind.

बवंडर • (bavaṇḍar) m (Urdu spelling بونڈر)

tornado
whirlwind
- 2013, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Pritam (lyrics and music), “Kabira”, in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, performed by Pritam, Rekha Bhardwaj, Tochi Raina:
  मस्त-मौला, मस्त-क़लंदर, तू हवा का एक बवंडर
  mast-maulā, mast-qalandar, tū havā kā ek bavaṇḍar
  Carefree like a Sufi wanderer, you are a whirlwind
dust devil

Declension of बवंडर (masc cons-stem)

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vātamaṇḍalī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670