پند

Persian

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian pnd (pand, “path; counsel, advice”) (compare Parthian pnd (pand, “counsel”), pndʾn (pandān, “path”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, walk; way, path”). Cognate with Old Armenian հուն (hun), Ancient Greek πάτος (pátos), πόντος (póntos), Latin pons, and Old Church Slavonic пѫть (pǫtĭ)

Noun

پند • (pand) (plural پندها (pand-hâ))

1. advice, counsel, guidance

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

• فند (fand)

Noun

پند • (pand) (plural پندها (pand-hâ))

1. (archaic) knack, trick, gimmick

Descendants

• Arabic: فن (fann)
  • Bashkir: фән (fən)
  • Persian: فن (fann)
  • Uzbek: fan

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پند”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pand”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “pnd”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols