کند

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See also: گند

Khalaj

Adjective

کُند (kund or künd)

  1. Arabic spelling of kund, künd (“blunt”)

Pashto

Noun

کند • (kand) m

  1. ravine, gorge
  2. pit
  3. honeycomb

References

  • “کند”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
  • Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “کند”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Persian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kuntʰás. Perhaps ultimately related to the root of Old Armenian ճաղատ (čałat, “bare, bald”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit कुण्ठ (kuṇṭhá, “blunt, dull”).

Adjective

کند • (kond) (comparative کندتَر (kond-tar), superlative کندتَرین (kond-tarin))

  1. blunt
  2. dull
  3. slow
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: künd
  • → Azerbaijani: küt
  • → Khalaj: kund
  • → Turkish: küt

References

  1. ^ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (1961). United Kingdom: The School, p. 479

Further reading

  • Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 5, pages 201–206

Etymology 2

Noun

کند • (kond)

  1. fetter, clog; stocks
Descendants

Further reading

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).

Noun

کند • (kand)

  1. candied sugar
Descendants
Descendants

Etymology 4

Possibly related to Persian کون (kun, “buttocks”) and dialectal Persian کین (kin, “buttocks”).

Noun

کند • (kend)

  1. (dialectal) arse, ass
  2. (dialectal) anus

Etymology 5

Noun form of کندن (kandan, “to dig”).

Noun

کند • (kand)

  1. valley
    Synonym: دَرّه (darre)
  2. crack, fissure
Derived terms

Urdu

Adjective

کند • (kund) (Hindi spelling कुंद)

  1. blunt, dull, not sharp
  2. slow
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