بنده

From Persian بنده (bande).

• IPA^(key): /ban.ˈd̪a/

بنده • (bandá) m

1. servant
2. slave

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bndk' /⁠bandag⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎭𐎣 (baⁿdaka). Compare Sanskrit बन्धक (bandhaka). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”).

By surface analysis, بند (band, present stem of بستن (bastan, “to bind”)) +‎ ـه (-e).

بَنْدِه • (bande)

1. servant, slave, bondsman

   Synonyms: برده (barde), غُلام (ġolâm), چاکر (čâker), نوکر (nowkar)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 211:

     نمی‌خواهم سلیمی پادشاهی بندهٔ یارم
     که من شاهنشهی از بندگی خویشتن دارم

     na-mē-xwāham salīmī pādišāhī banda-yi yāram
     ki man šāhinšahī az bandagī-yi xwēštan dāram

     I, Selim, do not want the kingdom; I am the beloved's servant,
     For I have an empire out of my own servitude.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

بَنْدِه • (bande)

1. (humble) I, me

   Synonym: مَن (man)

• In humble deference to the addressee.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بنده”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim