Commonly used Hindi / Urdu word in Delhi बंदा bandā (female counterpart बंदी) to refer to a person (man/woman) is from Persian word بنده bandā (=servant, slave) from Middle Persian bandag (servant) which is related to Old Persian brātā (= brother), related to Sanskrit भ्राता.
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That is weird. A pair of near homonym-synonyms with different roots
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You should write an email newsletter with this stuff on substack. One Indic linguistics mystery per week.
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