خنده

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐮄𐮌𐮃𐮉𐮈 (hndky /⁠xandag⁠/, “laughter”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (hndytn' /⁠xandīdan⁠/, “to laugh”) +‎ [Book Pahlavi needed] (-k' /⁠-ag⁠/). Cognate with Northern Luri خںنںە (xənə). See Persian خندیدن (xandidan) for more.

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خنده • (xande)

1. laughing; a laugh; laughter
   • 11th century, Abulfazl Bayhaqi, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, page 83:

     و وی هر کسی را لطف می‌کرد و زهر خنده می‌زد – و به هیچ روزگار من او را با خندهٔ فراخ ندیدم، الا همه تبسم، که صعب مردی بود – و سخت فرو شده بود؛ چنان که گفتی می‌داند که چه خواهد بود.

     and he was doing acts of kindness to everyone [visiting him] and was doing forced laughing – and in all my life I never saw him with a joyful laugh, except only smiles, since he was a tough man – and he was so thoughtful; such that he knew what was about to happen.

• → Pashto: خنده (xandā́)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خنده”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul