See bandh on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰendʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "बन्ध्"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hi",
"3": "बंध",
"4": "",
"5": "closure"
},
"expansion": "Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "बन्ध",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bund#Etymology 2",
"t1": "a type of enclosure"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”)",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bandhs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bandh (plural bandhs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "South Asian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Ornit Shanri, Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat:",
"text": "The impending course of events and the patterns of violence could have readily been foreseen after the incident in Godhra, and particularly after the VHP's declaration of a state-wide bandh, both by the city's residents and government authorities […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:",
"text": "A week-long bandh was in progress. People had nothing to do.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Purnendu Ghosh, The Rising Sun, page 26:",
"text": "Opposition parties said that the bandh was a success. The ruling parties said the opposite. Some saw government insensitivity in the bandh and the beginning of the fight against inflationary trends.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work."
],
"id": "en-bandh-en-noun-7JZsvqO2",
"links": [
[
"general strike",
"general strike"
],
[
"shutdown",
"shutdown"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Asia) A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "shutdown"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bundh"
},
{
"word": "bund"
}
],
"tags": [
"South-Asia"
],
"wikipedia": [
"bandh"
]
}
],
"word": "bandh"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰendʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "बन्ध्"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hi",
"3": "बंध",
"4": "",
"5": "closure"
},
"expansion": "Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "बन्ध",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bund#Etymology 2",
"t1": "a type of enclosure"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”)",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bandhs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bandh (plural bandhs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "shutdown"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Hindi",
"English terms derived from Hindi",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Sanskrit",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰendʰ-",
"English terms derived from the Sanskrit root बन्ध्",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"South Asian English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Ornit Shanri, Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat:",
"text": "The impending course of events and the patterns of violence could have readily been foreseen after the incident in Godhra, and particularly after the VHP's declaration of a state-wide bandh, both by the city's residents and government authorities […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:",
"text": "A week-long bandh was in progress. People had nothing to do.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Purnendu Ghosh, The Rising Sun, page 26:",
"text": "Opposition parties said that the bandh was a success. The ruling parties said the opposite. Some saw government insensitivity in the bandh and the beginning of the fight against inflationary trends.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work."
],
"links": [
[
"general strike",
"general strike"
],
[
"shutdown",
"shutdown"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Asia) A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work."
],
"tags": [
"South-Asia"
],
"wikipedia": [
"bandh"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bundh"
},
{
"word": "bund"
}
],
"word": "bandh"
}
Download raw JSONL data for bandh meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.