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pungi

pungi noun: a wind instrument, traditionally made from a gourd, played by snake charmers in India and Pakistan.

pungi: a wind instrument, traditionally made from a gourd, played by snake charmers in India and Pakistan
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Noun

pungi (plural pungis)

  1. A wind instrument, traditionally made from a gourd, played by snake charmers in India and Pakistan.

pungi meaning in Hindi and Urdu

pungi in Hindi

pungi
पुंगी puṅgī, बीन bīn

pungi in Urdu

pungi
بین bīn

Forms of pungi

pluralpungis

Origin of pungi

Borrowed from Hindi पुंगी (puṅgī).

Questions about pungi

What does pungi mean?
Pungi means a wind instrument, traditionally made from a gourd, played by snake charmers in India and Pakistan.
What is pungi in Hindi?
Pungi in Hindi is पुंगी (puṅgī), बीन (bīn). See Pungi meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pungi?
Pungi is a noun.
What is the plural of pungi?
The plural of pungi is pungis.

Words near pungi in the dictionary

  1. pungent
  2. pungently
  3. Pungești
  4. Punggol
  5. Punghina
  6. pungi
  7. pungies
  8. pungis
  9. pungitive
  10. pungle
  11. pungled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pungi (page history and authors); पुंगी (Hindi) (page history and authors); بین (Urdu) (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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