کند

See also: گند

Khalaj

Adjective

کُند (kund or künd)

1. Arabic spelling of kund, künd (“blunt”)

Pashto

Noun

کند • (kand) m

1. ravine, gorge
2. pit
3. honeycomb

References

• “کند”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “کند”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Persian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kuntʰás. Perhaps ultimately related to the root of Old Armenian ճաղատ (čałat, “bare, bald”). Cognate with Sanskrit कुण्ठ (kuṇṭhá, “blunt, dull”).

Adjective

کند • (kond) (comparative کندتَر (kond-tar), superlative کندتَرین (kond-tarin))

1. blunt
2. dull
3. slow

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: künd
• → Azerbaijani: küt
• → Khalaj: kund
• → Turkish: küt

Further reading

• Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 5, pages 201–206

Etymology 2

Noun

کند • (kond)

1. fetter, clog; stocks

Related terms

• کنده (konde)

Descendants

• → Armenian: կունդ (kund)

Further reading

• Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[2], volume 5, pages 201–206
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کند”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1053

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa).

Noun

کند • (kand)

1. candied sugar

Descendants

Descendants

• Tajik: қанд (qand)
• → Arabic: قَنْد (qand)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قند (kand)
  • → Persian: قند (qand)
    • → Gulf Arabic: قند (qand)
  • ⇒ Old French: sucre candi
    • → Middle English: candy
      • English: candy, candee, candie, candil, kandy
        • → Cebuano: kendi
        • → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
        • → Hopi: kyenti
        • → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
        • → Kashubian: kindus (United States)
        • → Tagalog: kendi
• → Azerbaijani: qənd
• → Karakalpak: qant
• → Kazakh: қант (qant)
• → Kyrgyz: кант (kant)
• → Turkmen: gant
• → Uzbek: qand
• Chagatai: قند

Etymology 4

Possibly related to Persian کون (kun, “buttocks”) and dialectal Persian کین (kin, “buttocks”).

Noun

کند • (kend)

1. (dialectal) arse, ass
2. (dialectal) anus

Etymology 5

Noun form of کندن (kandan, “to dig”).

Noun

کند • (kand)

1. valley

   Synonym: دَرّه (darre)

2. crack, fissure

Derived terms

• آبکَند (âbkand)

Urdu

Adjective

کند • (kund) (Hindi spelling कुंद)

1. blunt, dull, not sharp
2. slow