بانو

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Persian

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Etymology

From Middle Persian (bʾnwk'), (bʾnwg /⁠bānūg⁠/), from Old Persian *bānūka-.[1][2] Akin to Old Armenian բանուկան (banukan), an Iranian borrowing.

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Particularly: “Related to Ancient Greek δέσποινα (déspoina, “mistress, lady”)? Proto-form might be something like *bāt-nūka-, with the "dems" part dropped off.”

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bānū
Dari reading? bānū
Iranian reading? bânu
Tajik reading? bonu

Noun

بانو • (bânu) (plural بانوان (bânovân) or بانوها (bânu-hâ))

Dari بانو
Iranian Persian
Tajik бону
  1. lady
    Synonym: خانم (xânom)

Descendants

Proper noun

بانو • (bânu)

  1. a female given name, Banu, Banoo, or Banou, from Middle Persian

Descendants

References

  1. ^ “BĀNBIŠN”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, 15 December 1988
  2. ^ “HAREM i. IN ANCIENT IRAN”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, 15 December 2003

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بانو (bānū, “lady; queen”).

Pronunciation

Noun

بانو • (bānū or bāno) f (Hindi spelling बानू or बानो)

  1. lady, a woman of rank
  2. queen
  3. housewife

References

  • “بانو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بانو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بانو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • “بانو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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