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نیند

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā)
    Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā)
    Urdu نِینْد (nīnd)

    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

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    Noun

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    نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद)

    1. 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.
    2. (by extension) dream
      Synonym: سوتا (sotā)
    3. (figuratively) death, eternal sleep[3]
    4. (figuratively, informal) sloth, tiredness, laziness
      Synonym: سُسْتی (sustī)

    Declension

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    Declension of نیند
    singular plural
    direct نِیند (nīnd) نِیندیں (nīndẽ)
    oblique نِیند (nīnd) نِیندوں (nīndõ)
    vocative نِیند (nīnd) نِیندو (nīndo)

    Derived terms

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    Derived terms

    References

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    1. ^ “نیند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nidrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
    3. ^ Jami-ul-Lughaat

    Further reading

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    More information
    • “نیند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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
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