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banda

banda

See also: bånda

English

Noun

banda ‎(uncountable)

  1. A type of Mexican brass band music
    • 2007, January 13, “Seth Kugel”, in The Sounds of Mexico Hit New York Airwaves:
      With very little fanfare, WZAA had become the first FM station in New York offering a format known as Mexican Regiona, which includes genres like ranchera, banda and norteña music.

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Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

banda f ‎(plural bandes)

  1. band
  2. side

Czech

Noun

banda f

  1. (informal) gang, crowd, band

Declension

French

Verb

banda

  1. third-person singular past historic of bander

Galician

Noun

banda f ‎(plural bandas)

  1. band (musical group)
  2. band, strip

Gooniyandi

Noun

banda

  1. the ground
  2. dirt

References

  • William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, ISBN 9027282056)

Hausa

Noun

bàndā f

  1. meat or fish dried over a fire

Hiligaynon

Noun

bánda

  1. strap

Hungarian

Etymology

From Italian banda ‎(“group”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒndɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ban‧da

Noun

banda ‎(plural bandák)

  1. gang (group of criminals who band together)
  2. (pejorative) band, crew, mob (unruly group of people)
  3. (colloquial, humorous) team, band (group of people being in some relation)
  4. (colloquial, music) band (group of people playing popular music)
  5. (dated, dialectal) workgroup, crew
  6. (dialectal, music) gypsy orchestra
    • 1851, János Arany, A nagyidai cigányok, canto 1:
      S legottan vitézlő férfiak menének, / Hogy kihoznák a port, ágyut töltenének. / Rárántá azonban Juhgége s a banda, / Megkezdé a táncot legelébb a vajda.
  7. (card games) four cards of the same suit (in ferbli)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative banda bandák
accusative bandát bandákat
dative bandának bandáknak
instrumental bandával bandákkal
causal-final bandáért bandákért
translative bandává bandákká
terminative bandáig bandákig
essive-formal bandaként bandákként
essive-modal — —
inessive bandában bandákban
superessive bandán bandákon
adessive bandánál bandáknál
illative bandába bandákba
sublative bandára bandákra
allative bandához bandákhoz
elative bandából bandákból
delative bandáról bandákról
ablative bandától bandáktól
Possessive forms of banda
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. bandám bandáim
2nd person sing. bandád bandáid
3rd person sing. bandája bandái
1st person plural bandánk bandáink
2nd person plural bandátok bandáitok
3rd person plural bandájuk bandáik

Synonyms

Derived terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpanta/
  • Rhymes: -anta

Verb

banda ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bandaði, supine bandað)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to beckon, to wave at

Conjugation

bandast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að bandast
supine
(sagnbót) 		bandast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		bandandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég bandast við böndumst present
(nútíð) 		ég bandist við böndumst
þú bandast þið bandist þú bandist þið bandist
hann, hún, það bandast þeir, þær, þau bandast hann, hún, það bandist þeir, þær, þau bandist
past
(þátíð) 		ég bandaðist við bönduðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég bandaðist við bönduðumst
þú bandaðist þið bönduðust þú bandaðist þið bönduðust
hann, hún, það bandaðist þeir, þær, þau bönduðust hann, hún, það bandaðist þeir, þær, þau bönduðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		bandast (þú) bandist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
bandastu bandisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbˠan̪ˠd̪ˠə/

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English band.

Noun

banda m ‎(genitive singular banda, nominative plural bandaí)

  1. band (myriad senses)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish banda, from ben ‎(“woman”).

Adjective

banda

  1. womanly
  2. feminine
Declension
Related terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
banda bhanda mbanda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Old Provençal, of Germanic origin. Compare French bande.

Noun

banda f ‎(plural bande)

  1. side
  2. tape or strip
  3. (heraldry) bend

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin banda, possibly of Gothic origin.

Noun

banda f ‎(plural bande)

  1. band (in all senses)
  2. gang or group

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowing from Italian banda.

Noun

banda

  1. side

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

banda n

  1. definite plural of band

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbãn̪d̪a]

Noun

banda f

  1. (pejorative) band (a group of people loosely united for a common purpose)
  2. barrier (protective fence around a racetrack)
  3. cushion (the lip around a table in cue sports)

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɐ̃.dɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ban‧da

Etymology 1

From French bande ‎(“ribbon”), from Frankish *binda ‎(“join, link”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- ‎(“to bind, tie”).

Noun

banda f (plural bandas)

  1. band, stripe
  2. side
  3. (heraldry) bend

Etymology 2

From French bande ‎(“group, gang”), from Old Provençal banda ‎(“regiment of troops”), from West Germanic *banda or Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰 ‎(bandwa).

Noun

banda f (plural bandas)

  1. band (of people, musical, of frequencies)
Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian banda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâːnda/
  • Hyphenation: ban‧da

Noun

bȃnda f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ба̑нда)

  1. gang

Declension

References

  • “banda” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

From French bande ‎(“ribbon”, also “group, gang”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -anda

Noun

banda f ‎(plural bandas)

  1. band
  2. gang or group
  3. badge
  4. (heraldry) bend

Related terms

Derived terms

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References

Swedish

Etymology

band +‎ -a

Verb

banda ‎(present bandar, preterite bandade, supine bandat, imperative banda)

  1. to tape, to record to a magnetic tape

Conjugation

Related terms

  • bandning

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Noun

banda

  1. A musical band.
    Maraming banda ang tutugtog sa palabas.
    Many bands will perform in the show.

Verb

banda

  1. To be part of a musical band.
    Nagbabanda sila bilang raket.
    They play in bands for some income.

Preposition

banda

  1. Around—for location and time.
    Aalis ako ng bandang alas kuwatro ng hapon.
    I'll leave at around four PM.
    Banda roon lang nakalagay ang susi.
    The keys have been placed just around there.

Etymology

From Spanish banda.

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