لوند

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (lavand, “coquettish, flirtatious”).

Noun

لوند • (levend)

scapegrace, scoundrel, rascal, rogue, knave, a person without honour or virtue
(historical) levend, a soldier recruited in eastern countries who worked in Venetian ships
(historical) levend, any person of the military class working for the Ottoman navy
(in general) irregular, a soldier who is not a member of an official military force

Derived terms

لوندانه (levendane, “roystering”)
لوندلك (levendlik, “the state of being a levend”)

Descendants

Turkish: levent
→ Albanian: levend
→ Armenian: լէվէնտ (lēvēnt)
→ Aromanian: livendu
→ Bulgarian: леве́нт (levént)
→ Greek: λεβέντης (levéntis)
→ Hungarian: levente
→ Italian: levente
→ Macedonian: левент (levent)
→ Romanian: levent
→ Serbo-Croatian: lèvēnta / лѐве̄нта

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “levent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2959
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “levend”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 656
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Voluntarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1788
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لوند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4210
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “levent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645

Pashto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lund̪/

Adjective

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لوند • (lund)

wet

Declension

declension of لوند

	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	لوند (lund)	لاندۀ (lândë)		لنده (lënda)	لندې (lënde)
oblique	لاندۀ (lândë)	لندو (lëndo)		لندې (lënde)	لندو (lëndo)
vocative	لونده (lunda)	لندو (lëndo)		لندې (lënde)	لندو (lëndo)

Dialectal:

declension of لوند

	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	لوند (lund)	لامدۀ (lâmdë)		لمده (lëmda)	لمدې (lëmde)
oblique	لامدۀ (lâmdë)	لمدو (lëmdo)		لمدې (lëmde)	لمدو (lëmdo)
vocative	لونده (lunda)	لمدو (lëmdo)		لمدې (lëmde)	لمدو (lëmdo)

Persian

Adjective

لوند • (lavand)

(Iran) coquettish, flirtatious

Noun

لوند • (lavand)

(Dari) harlot
(Dari) idler

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: لوند (levend)
- Turkish: levent
- → Albanian: levend
- → Armenian: լէվէնտ (lēvēnt)
- → Aromanian: livendu
- → Bulgarian: леве́нт (levént)
- → Greek: λεβέντης (levéntis)
- → Hungarian: levente
- → Italian: levente
- → Macedonian: левент (levent)
- → Romanian: levent
- → Serbo-Croatian: lèvēnta / лѐве̄нта