مسند

Derived from the passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada, “to support”).

• IPA^(key): /mus.nad/

مُسْنَد • (musnad)

1. passive participle of أَسْنَدَ (ʔasnada).
   1. (Islam) backed-up, fortified, held-up (describes having an unverifiable chain of narrators for a Prophetic Hadith alleging its authenticity)

      أحاديث غير مُسْنَدَة ― Hadiths with no narrators mentioned

مُسْنَد • (musnad) m (dual مُسْنَدَان (musnadān), plural مَسَانِد (masānid) or مَسَانِيد (masānīd))

1. (Islam) musnad (collection of Prophetic Hadiths with narrators)

   مُسْنَد الإمام أحمد ― The Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal

2. (grammar) predicate

• → Ottoman Turkish: مسند (müsned)
  • Turkish: müsnet

Tool noun from the root س ن د (s-n-d).

• IPA^(key): /mas.nad/

مَسْنَد • (masnad) m (plural مَسَانِد (masānid))

1. prop, rest, support

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْنَد (masnad).

مسند • (masnad) (plural مسندها (masnad-hâ) or مساند (masâned))

1. something to sit or recline on, e.g. seat, bench, cushion, pillow, throne
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 132:

     مست می حسنی بسر مسند شاهی
     و آگه ز سلیمی نه که جان کرد فدایت

     mast-i may hasanī ba-sar-i masnad-i šāhī
     u āgah zi salīmī na ki jān kard fidāyat

     Drunk with wine, you are beautiful on the royal seat,
     And unaware of Selim, who has sacrificed his life for you.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (figurative) position, post

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مسند”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim