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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑁄𑀁𑀟 / गोंड / ಗೋಂಡ (goṃḍa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit गोण्ड (goṇḍa, “Gond”).
Pronunciation
Noun
غُنْڈَہ • (ġunḍah) m (Hindi spelling गुंडा)
- goon, hooligan
- Synonym: بَدْمَعاش (badmaʻāś)
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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 , 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, 3rd 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