बाँसुरी

• बँसुरी (bãsurī)

Derived from Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮- (-la-).

बाँसुरी (bā̃surī) f

1. flute, bansuri

Borrowed from Braj बाँसुरी (bā̃surī), ultimately from Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī, “flute”). Doublet of बाँसली (bā̃slī), the native term which it displaced.

Cognate to Gujarati વાંસળી (vā̃saḷī), Bengali বাঁশি (bãśi), Assamese বাঁহী (bãhi).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bɑ̃ː.sʊ.ɾiː/, [bä̃ː.sʊ.ɾiː]

बाँसुरी • (bā̃surī) f (Urdu spelling بانسری)

1. (music) bansuri, flute

   Synonym: (obsolete) बाँसली (bā̃slī)

• → English: bansuri

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बाँसुरी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vaṁśī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press