کند

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See also: گند

Khalaj[edit]

Adjective[edit]

کُند (kund or künd)

Arabic spelling of kund, künd (“blunt”)

Pashto[edit]

Noun[edit]

کند • (kand) m

References[edit]

“کند”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “کند”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Persian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kuntʰás. Perhaps ultimately related to the root of Old Armenian ճաղատ (čałat, “bare, bald”).^[1] Cognate with Sanskrit कुण्ठ (kuṇṭhá, “blunt, dull”).

Adjective[edit]

کند • (kond) (comparative کندتَر (kond-tar), superlative کندتَرین (kond-tarin))

Descendants[edit]

→ Azerbaijani: künd
→ Azerbaijani: küt
→ Khalaj: kund
→ Turkish: küt

References[edit]

^ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (1961). United Kingdom: The School, p. 479

Further reading[edit]

Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 5, pages 201–206

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

کند • (kond)

fetter, clog; stocks

Related terms[edit]

کنده (konde)

Descendants[edit]

→ Armenian: կունդ (kund)

Further reading[edit]

Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[2], volume 5, pages 201–206
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کند”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1053

Etymology 3[edit]

From Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).

Noun[edit]

کند • (kand)

candied sugar

Descendants[edit]

Descendants

Tajik: қанд (qand)
→ Arabic: قَنْد (qand)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قند (kand)
- → Persian: قند (qand)
  - → Gulf Arabic: قند (qand)
- ⇒ Old French: sucre candi
  - → Middle English: candy
    - English: candy, candee, candie, candil, kandy
      - → Cebuano: kendi
      - → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
      - → Hopi: kyenti
      - → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
      - → Tagalog: kendi
→ Azerbaijani: qənd
→ Karakalpak: qant
→ Kazakh: қант (qant)
→ Kyrgyz: кант (kant)
→ Turkmen: gant
→ Uzbek: qand
Chagatai: قند

Etymology 4[edit]

Possibly related to Persian (kun, “buttocks”) and dialectal Persian (kin, “buttocks”).

Noun[edit]

کند • (kend)

(dialectal) arse, ass
(dialectal) anus

Etymology 5[edit]

Noun form of کندن (kandan, “to dig”).

Noun[edit]

کند • (kand)

valley
Synonym: دَرّه (darre)
crack, fissure

Derived terms[edit]

آبکَند (âbkand)

Urdu[edit]

Adjective[edit]

کند • (kund) (Hindi spelling कुंद)

blunt, dull, not sharp
slow

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