نیند

Urdu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-Iranian *nidráH
    Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā)
    Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā)
    Urdu نِینْد (nīnd)

    Inherited from Middle Hindi نیند (nīnd) / نید (nīd),[1] from Old Hindi نیند (nīnd /⁠nynd⁠/) / نید (nīd /⁠nyd⁠/) / نندا (nindā), from Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā), from Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā́),[2] from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nidráH.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /niːnd̪/, [nĩːnd̪]
    • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
    • Rhymes: -iːnd̪

    Noun

    نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद)

    1. sleep, slumber
      Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh, “slumber”)
      Antonym: جاگ (jāg, “wake; wakefulness”)
      • 2004, Iqbal Niazi, سب ٹھیک ہے: اسٹیج ڈرامے [Everything's fine: Stage Dramas] (fiction), page 136:
        ہم سو نہیں رہے ہیں۔ ہم سو کیسے سکتے ہیں ،اُس بوڑھے نے تو ہماری نیندیں اُڑا دی ہیں۔
        ham so nahī̃ rahe ha͠i. ham so kaise sakte ha͠i, us būṛhe ne to hamārī nīndẽ uṛā dī ha͠i.
        We're not sleeping. How can we sleep? That old man has crashed our sleep.
    2. (by extension) dream
      Synonym: سوتا (sotā)
    3. (figuratively) death, eternal sleep[3]
    4. (figuratively, informal) sloth, tiredness, laziness
      Synonym: سُسْتی (sustī)

    Declension

    Declension of نیند
    singular plural
    direct نِینْد (nīnd) نِینْدیں (nīndẽ)
    oblique نِینْد (nīnd) نِینْدوں (nīndõ)
    vocative نِینْد (nīnd) نِینْدو (nīndo)

    Derived terms

    • نِینْد آنی (nīnd ānī, “to feel sleepy”)
    • نِینْد پَڑْنی (nīnd paṛnī, “to be sleepy; to fall asleep”)

    References

    1. ^ “نیند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nidrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
    3. ^ Jami-ul-Lughaat

    Further reading

    • “نیند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
    • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “نيند”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
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