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goonda

goonda noun: a hired thug.

Noun

goonda (plural goondas)

  1. (South-Asia, colloquial) A hired thug.
    • ‘I cannot imagine the minds of goondas.’2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 31

goonda meaning in Telugu and Malayalam

goonda in Telugu

goonda, rowdy
గూండా gūṇḍā

goonda in Malayalam

goonda, hired thug, goon
ഗുണ്ട guṇṭa

Forms of goonda

pluralgoondas
alternative formgunda

Origin of goonda

Borrowed from Hindi गुंडा (guṇḍā).

Words formed from goonda

Questions about goonda

What does goonda mean?
Goonda means a hired thug.
What is goonda in Telugu?
Goonda in Telugu is గూండా (gūṇḍā). See Goonda meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is goonda?
Goonda is a noun.
What is the plural of goonda?
The plural of goonda is goondas.

Words near goonda in the dictionary

  1. goonbait
  2. gooncave
  3. gooncaves
  4. goonch
  5. goonches
  6. goonda
  7. goondagiri
  8. goondaism
  9. goondas
  10. goondie
  11. goondies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goonda (page history and authors); గూండా (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഗുണ്ട (Malayalam) (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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