ਬੰਦਾ

Borrowed from Classical Persian بنده (banda). Doublet of ਬੰਨ੍ਹਣਾ (bannhṇā) and ਬਾਨ੍ਹਾ (bānhā). Compare Hindi बंदा (bandā).

Noun sense 1 is probably a back-formation from ਰੱਬ ਦਾ ਬੰਦਾ (rabba dā bandā, “pious man”, literally “servant of God”).

• IPA^(key): /bən.d̪aː/

ਬੰਦਾ • (bandā) m (Shahmukhi spelling بندہ)

2. man, male

   Synonym: ਆਦਮੀ (ādamī)

3. (dated) slave, servant

• ਬੰਦ (band, “shut”, adjective)
• ਬੰਦੀ m (bandī, “prisoner”)

ਬੰਦਾ • (bandā)

1. (deferential, dated) your servant (humble first-person singular)

• Singh, Bhai Maya (1895), “ਬੰਦਾ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
• “ਬੰਦਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026