See also: بند and پند

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

تَنْدُ (tandu) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of نَدَا (nadā)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of نَدَا (nadā)

Verb edit

تُنْدَ (tunda) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive of نَدَا (nadā)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive of نَدَا (nadā)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

تَنْدَ (tanda) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of نَدِيَ (nadiya)
  2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of نَدِيَ (nadiya)

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

تِنَد (tinadpl

  1. plural of تَنْدَة (tanda)

Khalaj edit

Adjective edit

تُند (tund)

  1. Arabic spelling of tund (spicy)

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (twnd /⁠tund⁠/, sharp, violent), from Proto-Iranian *tund- (to act violently), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tund-, from Proto-Indo-European *tu-n-d-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? tund
Dari reading? tund
Iranian reading? tond
Tajik reading? tund
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Adjective edit

Dari تُند
Iranian Persian
Tajik тунд

تند (tond)

  1. fast; quick
    Synonym: سریع (sari')
    خیلی تند می‌دود.xeyli tond mi-davad.He runs very fast.
    قلبم تند می‌زد.qalb-am tond mi-zad.My heart was beating quickly.
  2. spicy; hot
    Synonym: تیز (tiz)
    این فلفل تند است.in felfel tond ast.This pepper is spicy.
  3. harsh; acrid; biting; sharp
    انتقاد تندenteqâd-e tondharsh criticism
  4. severe; intense
    Synonyms: شدید (šadid), سخت (saxt)
    باد تند می‌وزدbâd tond mi-vazadthe wind blows harshly
  5. strong; intense (of a beverage, a color)
    قرمز تندqermez-e tonddeep red
    قهوهٔ تندqahve-ye tondstrong coffee
  6. quick to anger; irate
    مرد تندmard-e tondman with a temper
  7. sharp; steep
    Synonym: تیز (tiz)
    شیب تندšib-e tondsteep slope

Derived terms edit

verbs
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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: թունդ (tʿund)
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܢܕ (tund)
  • Azerbaijani: tünd
  • Khalaj: tund
  • Kyrgyz: түнт (tünt)
  • Ottoman Turkish: تند (tund, tünd)

Further reading edit

  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tund”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 628b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 84

Punjabi edit

Noun edit

تند (tandm (Gurmukhi spelling ਤੰਦ)

  1. thread, strand, fibre
  2. tendril
  3. string (of musical instrument)

Urdu edit

Adjective edit

تند (tund)

  1. fast, quick, swift, rapid
    Synonyms: سریع (sarī), جلد (jald)
  2. sharp
    Synonym: تیز (tiz)