تند

See also: بند‎ and پند‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

Verb

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

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

Verb

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)

Persian

Etymology

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

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tund/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /tʊnd/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /tond/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /tund/

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Adjective

Dari	تُند
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тунд (tund)

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 تند‎ ― enteqâd-e tond ― harsh criticism

4. severe; intense

   Synonyms: شدید‎ (šadid), سخت‎ (saxt)

   ‏باد تند می‌وزد‎ ― bâd tond mi-vazad ― the wind blows harshly

5. strong; intense (of a beverage, a color)

   ‏قرمز تند‎ ― qermez-e tond ― deep red

   ‏قهوهٔ تند‎ ― qahve-ye tond ― strong coffee

6. quick to anger; irate

   ‏مرد تند‎ ― mard-e tond ― man with a temper

7. sharp; steep

   Synonym: تیز‎ (tiz)

   ‏شیب تند‎ ― šib-e tond ― steep slope

Derived terms

verbs

• تند شدن‎ (tond šodan)
• تند کردن‎ (tond kardan)

 

other

• تندرو‎ (tondrow)
• تندزبان‎ (tondzabân)
• تندهوش‎ (tondhuš)
• تندپز‎ (tondpaz, “microwave cooker”)

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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

Noun

تند • (tand) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਤੰਦ)

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

Urdu

Adjective

تند • (tund)

1. fast, quick, swift, rapid

   Synonyms: سریع‎ (sarī), جلد‎ (jald)

2. sharp

   Synonym: تیز‎ (tiz)