Where does “банда” come from?

банда (Bulgarian) comes from Russian ба́нда, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll.

банда (Bulgarian): gang group of criminals

Definitions

  1. gang group of criminals

Ancestry of “банда”, step by step

банда traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Russian ба́нда

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianба́ндаgang
2Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
3Frenchlàthere; here, present
4Italianlàthere
5Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
6Portugueseláthere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
7GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
8Germana-MollA-minor
9Hungarianathe; this; that
10Frenchàto; on the, to; at
11Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
12Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
13LatinA—
14Etruscan𐌀and, also
15Ancient Greekᾱ̔—
16Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef
17Egyptian𓃾—

via German Bande

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanBandegang; group, squad, band; elevated boundary of a...
2Proto-Germanicbandwōsign

via Greek μπάντα

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greekμπάνταside all location senses
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