نیند
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Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi نیند (nīnd) / نید (nīd), from Old Hindi نیند (nīnd /nynd/) / نید (nīd /nyd/) / نندا (nindā), from Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā), from Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā́), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HnidráH. Cognate with Punjabi نِینْدَر (nīndar), Marathi नीद (nīd), and Gujarati નીંદર (nī̃dar).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /niːnd̪/,
Audio (Pakistan) (file) - Rhymes: -iːnd̪
Noun
نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद) (uncountable)
- sleep, slumber
- (by extension) dream
- Synonym: سوتا (sotā)
- (figuratively) death, eternal sleep
- (figuratively, informal) sloth, tiredness, laziness
- Synonym: سُسْتی (sustī)
Declension
| Declension of نیند | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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”)
Further reading
- “نیند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “نیند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نيند”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “نيند”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “نیند”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “نیند”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nidrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press