پند

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? pand
Dari reading? pand
Iranian reading? pand
Tajik reading? pand

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian pnd (pand, path; counsel, advice) (compare Parthian 𐫛𐫗𐫅 (pnd /⁠pand⁠/, counsel), 𐫛𐫗𐫅𐫀𐫗 (pndʾn /⁠pandān⁠/, path)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh (path, road), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (path).[1] Cognate with Old Armenian հուն (hun), Ancient Greek πάτος (pátos), πόντος (póntos), Latin pons, and Old Church Slavonic пѫть (pǫtĭ).

Noun

پند • (pand) (plural پندها)[2][3][4]

  1. advice, counsel, guidance

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • فند (fand)

Noun

پند • (pand) (plural پندها)

  1. (archaic) knack, trick, gimmick
Descendants
  • Arabic: فَنّ (fann)
    • Egyptian Arabic: فن (fann)
    • Azerbaijani: fənn
    • Bashkir: фән (fən)
    • Hausa: fannī̀
    • Kazakh: пән (pän)
    • Ottoman Turkish: فن (fenn)
    • Persian: فن (fann)
    • Swahili: fani
    • Turkish: fen
    • Uyghur: پەن (pen)
    • Uzbek: fan
  • Azerbaijani: fənd
    • Armenian: փա̈նդ (pʻänd)Karabakh
  • Georgian: ფანდი (pandi)
  • Ottoman Turkish: فند (fend)
    • Armenian: ֆէնտ (fēnt), ֆա̈նդ (fänd)

References

  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 124
  2. ^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پند”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  3. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pand”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “pnd”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols