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Goonda is a term in Indian English, Pakistani English, and Bangladeshi English for a hired thug. It is both a colloquial term and defined and used in laws, generally referred to as Goonda Acts.[1] Etymology Edit The word Goonda comes from the Tamil word Goondan or Goondar (குண்டன் / குண்டர்)[2] or Telugu word Goonda (గూండా). "Goonda" probably comes from the Hindustani word guṇḍā (Hindi: गुण्डा, Urdu: گنڐا‎, "rascal").[1][3] There is also a Marathi word guṇḍā (गुंडा) with a similar meaning, attested as early as the 17th century, and possibly ultimately having Dravidian roots.[4] Another theory suggests that it originates from the English word "goon". However, the first English-language appearance of "goonda" (in British newspapers of the 1920s, with the spelling "goondah") predates the use of "goon" to mean criminal, a semantic change which seems to go back only as far as the 1930s comic strip character Alice the Goon.[1] A related term is "goonda-gardi", roughly meaning "bully-boy tactics".[5] Another is "goonda tax", referring to bribes or money extorted in a protection racket.[3] Definitions Edit