لوند

Ottoman Turkish

لوند

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لوند (lavand, “coquettish, flirtatious”).

Noun

لوند • (levend)

1. scapegrace, scoundrel, rascal, rogue, knave, a person without honour or virtue
2. (historical) levend, a soldier recruited in eastern countries who worked in Venetian ships
3. (historical) levend, any person of the military class working for the Ottoman navy
4. (in general) irregular, a soldier who is not a member of an official military force

Derived terms

• لوندانه (levendane, “roystering”)
• لوندلك (levendlik, “the state of being a levend”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: levent
• → Albanian: levend
• → Armenian: լէվէնտ (lēvēnt)
• → Greek: λεβέντης (levéntis)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “levent”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2959
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “levend”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 656
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Voluntarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1788
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لوند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4210
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “levent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645

Pashto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lund̪/

Adjective

لوند • (lund)

1. wet

Declension

declension of لوند

	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	لوند (lund)	لاندۀ (lândë)		لنده (lënda)	لندې (lënde)
oblique	لاندۀ (lândë)	لندو (lëndo)		لندې (lënde)	لندو (lëndo)
vocative	لونده (lunda)	لندو (lëndo)		لندې (lënde)	لندو (lëndo)

Dialectal:

declension of لوند

	masculine			feminine
	singular	plural		singular	plural
direct	لوند (lund)	لامدۀ (lâmdë)		لمده (lëmda)	لمدې (lëmde)
oblique	لامدۀ (lâmdë)	لمدو (lëmdo)		لمدې (lëmde)	لمدو (lëmdo)
vocative	لونده (lunda)	لمدو (lëmdo)		لمدې (lëmde)	لمدو (lëmdo)

Persian

Adjective

لوند • (lavand)

1. (Iran) coquettish, flirtatious

Noun

لوند • (lavand)

1. (Dari) harlot
2. (Dari) idler

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: لوند (levend)
  • Turkish: levent
  • → Albanian: levend
  • → Armenian: լէվէնտ (lēvēnt)
  • → Greek: λεβέντης (levéntis)