نیند
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Urdu
Etymology
Etymology tree
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 *HnidráH.
Pronunciation
Noun
نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद)
- 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.
- (by extension) dream
- Synonym: سوتا (sotā)
- (figuratively) death, eternal sleep[3]
- (figuratively, informal) sloth, tiredness, laziness
- Synonym: سُسْتی (sustī)
Declension
| Declension of نیند | ||||||||
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| singular | plural | |||||||
| direct | نِیند (nīnd) | نِیندیں (nīndẽ) | ||||||
| oblique | نِیند (nīnd) | نِیندوں (nīndõ) | ||||||
| vocative | نِیند (nīnd) | نِیندو (nīndo) | ||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- نِینْد آنی (nīnd ānī, “to feel sleepy”)
- نِینْد پَڑْنی (nīnd paṛnī, “to be sleepy; to fall asleep”)