/bɑ̃d/
band, strip; stripe; strip (e.g. magnetic strip); cushion; bend
“En Cisjordanie, puis au Liban-Sud et dans la bande de Gaza, Tsahal se heurte depuis plusieurs décennies aux écueils de la guérilla urbaine.”
From Middle French bande, from Old French bande, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bindā (“join, link”), cognate with English bind.
band, group, gang, troupe (of people, etc); pack (of wolves); pack of, bunch of (used before epithets addressed to more than one person), you
“On ne sera jamais seul autour de nous ; on est une meute solide, on est une bande de loups.”
From Old Occitan banda (“regiment of troops”), of Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *banda or Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰 (bandwa), ultimately from the same source as Etymology 1 above.