بندوق

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْدُوق (bandūq), from Arabic بُنْدُق (bunduq, “hazelnut, pebble, bullet, gun”), from Middle Persian pndk' (pondik, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “Pontic nut”).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə̃n.d̪uːq/

بَنْدُوق • (bandūq) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬੰਦੂਕ਼)

1. gun (ie. a shotgun; rifle as opposed to a pistol)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بندوق”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਬੰਦੂਕ਼”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

From Classical Persian بَنْدُوق (bandūq), from Arabic بُنْدُق (bunduq, “hazelnut, pebble, bullet, gun”), from Middle Persian pndk' (pondik, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “Pontic nut”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bən.d̪uːq/, /bən.d̪uːk/

بَنْدُوق • (bandūq) f (Hindi spelling बंदूक़)

1. gun, rifle

• “بندوق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بندوق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.