بَنْدٌ
A knot, or tie
is a Persian word arabicized, originally signifying A knot, or tie. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (tropical:) [Any of] the stops that are put between the beads of the سُبْحَة to mark the place where the performer of تَسْبِيح pauses on the occasion of a thing's diverting his attention: so in the Comm. on the Tohfeh by the seyyid 'Omar El-Basree: (MF, TA:) app. post-classical and recent. (TA.) ― -b3- A dam; a thing that stops, or dams, [water, or] from water (الَّذِى يُسْكِرُ مِنَ المَآءِ). (K. [In the CK, يُسْكَرُ is put in the place of يُسْكِرُ. In this sense, also, it is of Persian origin.]) ― -b4- A stratagem, a trick, or an expedient, of which one makes use: (T, K:) a snare by which one snares men: (TA in art. قمط:) pl. بُنُودٌ. (T.) You say, فُلَانٌ كَثِيرٌ البُنُودِ Such a one abounds in, or practises much, stratagems, tricks, or expedients, (Lth, T, A,) and mischievous, or calamitous, acts. (A.) In this sense, also, it is an arabicized Persian word. (TA.) ― -b5- An enigma. (TA.) ― -b6- A pawn that is tied (مُنْعَقِدٌ, in the CK مُتَعَقِّدٌ,) by a queen in the game of chess: as though it confined and tied itself. (TA.) ― -b7- Also a Persian word, arabicized, (S, A,) signifying A large banner, standard, or ensign: (En-Nadr, S, A, K:) or a banner, or standard, or an ensign, of a general, or leader, (T, M,) of the Greeks, (M,) under which are ten thousand men, (T, M,) or less, or more: (T:) or a banner, or standard, or an ensign, of horsemen: (El-Hujeymee, T:) [in barbarous Latin bandum; and in Spanish, bandera; as mentioned by Golius; and in modern Arabic بَنْدِيرٌ:] pl. as above: (S, M:) it has no pl. of pauc. (M.) ― -b8- [The pl.] بُنُودٌ also signifies, in Greece, [Provinces, or districts;] what are called أَجْنَادٌ in Syria, and أَعْرَاضٌ in El-Hijáz, and كُوَرٌ in El-'Irak, and مَخَالِيفٌ in El-Yemen. (Yákoot.)