hind

• IPA^(key): /haɪnd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd

From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), German hinter (“behind, beyond”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:

     Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

2. Backward; to the rear.

Wikispecies From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

hind (countable and uncountable, plural hind or hinds)

1. A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 3:

     Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

     The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

• (female deer): doe

• hindberry
• red hind

From Middle English hynd, hine, from Old English hī(ġ)na, genitive plural of hīġa (“servant, family member”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Parcimony of Our Forefathers”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 167:

     Attilius Regulus […] writ vnto the common-wealth, that a hynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge […].

   • 1792, Robert Bowmaker, “Number LI. Parish of Dunse, (County of Berwick.)”, in John Sinclair, editor, The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed and sold by William Creech [et al.], →OCLC, page 386:

     The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]

   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale‎^[1], page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hind.

• “hind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hind”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Dinh

Borrowed from Classical Persian هند (hind). Cognate with Turkish Hint, Uzbek hind.

hind (definite accusative hindi, plural hindlər)

1. (uncommon nowadays) Indian (person from India)

   Synonyms: hindli, (Classical Azerbaijani) hindi

2. (in izafet II compounds)
   1. Hindi

      hind dili ― Hindi language

   2. Indian (of or relating to India)

• “hind” in Obastan.com.

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

• IPA^(key): /henˀ/, [henˀ]

hind c (singular definite hinden, plural indefinite hinder or hinde)

1. hind (female deer)

From Proto-Finnic *hinta. Cognate with Finnish hinta and Votic intõ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhind̥/, [ˈ(h)ind̥]
• Rhymes: -ind
• Hyphenation: hind

hind (genitive hinna, partitive hinda)

1. price (the monetary expression of the value of a good, the amount of money or some other material value that is given in exchange for buying something or that is demanded when selling something)
   • 1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XI, in Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice)‎^[2], page 79:

     Küll arvas ka tema, et kraav on Pearu oma, sest ta seisis ju tema krundil, aga peale selle arvas ta veel, et temal, Andresel, oleks pidanud õigus olema esimese vee jooksmist näha, sest tema oli ju kraavi eest poole hinda maksnud ja vett oli kraavi kahtlemata rohkem tulnud tema kui Pearu maa seest.

     He also thought that the ditch belonged to Pearu, because it was on his land, but he also thought that he, Andres, should have had the right to see the first water running, because he had paid half the price for the ditch and the water had undoubtedly come more from his land than from Pearu's.

Declension of hind (ÕS type 22u/leib, nd-n gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hind	hinad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hina
genitive			hindade
partitive		hinda	hindu hindasid
illative		hinda hinasse	hindadesse hinusse
inessive		hinas	hindades hinus
elative		hinast	hindadest hinust
allative		hinale	hindadele hinule
adessive		hinal	hindadel hinul
ablative		hinalt	hindadelt hinult
translative		hinaks	hindadeks hinuks
terminative		hinani	hindadeni
essive		hinana	hindadena
abessive		hinata	hindadeta
comitative		hinaga	hindadega

• hind in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “hind”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /hɪnt/

From Old Norse hinna.

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. membrane

• hinna

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. hind (female deer)

• hindber

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

• IPA^(key): /hɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

hind f (genitive singular hindar, nominative plural hindir)

1. female deer, hind

From Proto-West Germanic *hindi, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

• IPA^(key): /xind/, [hind]

hind f

1. hind, doe

Strong i-stem:

• hindċealf

• Middle English: hind, hinde, hynde
  • Scots: hynde, hynd, hind
  • English: hind

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hind”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• hynd, hynde, hyne, hin, hine

From Early Scots hyne (“stripling”), from Northumbrian Old English hīȝu or hīȝan (“members of a household”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhəin(d)/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪnd/

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially a ploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.

• hindin (“the act of being a hind”)
• hindish (“to be like a hind; rustic”)

hind m pers

1. Hindu

• “hind”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Old Swedish hind, cognate with Old High German hinta, German Hinde, English hind.

hind c

1. a doe, a hind; the female of deer

   skygg som en hind

   shy as a doe

   Man kan ej för samma kärra spänna en häst och en hind.

   One can not harness to the same cart a horse and a trembling doe.

• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Inherited from Chagatai هند, from Classical Persian هند (hind).

hind (plural hindlar)

1. Indian (person from India)

   hind tili ― Hindi

• hindcha
• Hindiston

• indeys