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- Hindi · borrowed fromबन्दर“monkey”
- English todaybounder
From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Something that bounds or jumps. Full definition →
From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.