Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
BUND
I. noun
Etymology: Hindi baṅd & Urdu band, from Persian
Date: 1810
an embankment used especially in India to control the flow of water, an embanked thoroughfare along a river or the sea especially in the Far East,
II. noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Yiddish bund & German Bund, from Middle High German bunt; akin to Old English byndel
Date: 1850
a political association: as, a Jewish socialist organization founded in czarist Russia in 1897, a pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s, bundist noun , often capitalized