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bandh

bandh noun: 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.

Noun

bandh (plural bandhs)

  1. (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.
    • 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 […]2007, Ornit Shanri, Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat
    • A week-long bandh was in progress. People had nothing to do.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee

bandh meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Gujarati

bandh in Tamil

கதவடைப்பு, பொதுவேலை நிறுத்தம்

bandh in Bengali

bandh
বন্‌ধ bondh

bandh in Gujarati

bandh
બંધ bandh

Forms of bandh

pluralbandhs
alternative formbundh
alternative formbund

Origin of bandh

Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).

Questions about bandh

What does bandh mean?
Bandh means 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.
What is bandh in Tamil?
Bandh in Tamil is கதவடைப்பு, பொதுவேலை நிறுத்தம். See Bandh meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bandh?
Bandh is a noun.
What is the plural of bandh?
The plural of bandh is bandhs.

Words near bandh in the dictionary

  1. bandfics
  2. bandfish
  3. bandfishes
  4. bandgap
  5. bandgaps
  6. bandh
  7. bandha
  8. bandhani
  9. bandhaniya
  10. bandhas
  11. bandhead

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bandh (page history and authors); bandh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বন্‌ধ (Bengali) (page history and authors); બંધ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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