Word.ws English Dictionary

darwaza bund

darwaza bund phrase: not at home; currently unwilling to receive visitors into one's house.

Phrase

darwaza bund

  1. (India, archaic) Not at home; currently unwilling to receive visitors into one's house.
    • “The young of both species are horrible. You would have scores of them in your salon.” “I would not!” said Mrs. Hauksbee, fiercely. “I would tell the bearer to darwaza band them. I'd put their own colonels and commissioners at the door to turn them away.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 15

Forms of darwaza bund

alternative formdarwaza band
alternative formdurwaza bund

Origin of darwaza bund

From Hindustani دروازہ / दरवाज़ा (darvāzā) + بند / बंद (band).

Questions about darwaza bund

What does darwaza bund mean?
Darwaza bund means not at home; currently unwilling to receive visitors into one's house.
What part of speech is darwaza bund?
Darwaza bund is a phrase.

Words near darwaza bund in the dictionary

  1. Darwall
  2. darwaysh
  3. darwayshes
  4. Darwaz
  5. darwaza band
  6. darwaza bund
  7. Darwen
  8. darwesh
  9. darweshes
  10. darwin
  11. Darwin Award

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: darwaza bund (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “darwaza bund.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/darwaza_bund. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.