بانسری

Borrowed from Braj बाँसुरी (bā̃surī). Displaced بَانسْلِی (bānslī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑ̃ː.sʊ.ɾiː/, /bɑ̃ːs.ɾiː/

بان٘سُری or بان٘سْری • (bā̃surī or bā̃srī) f (Hindi spelling बाँसुरी or बाँसरी)

1. (music) bansuri, a type of flute made from bamboo

• “بانسری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بانسری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بانسری”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 98
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بانسری”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 127
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