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)

Etymology 3

Noun

تِنَد • (tinad) pl

1. plural of تَنْدَة (tanda)

Khalaj

Adjective

تُند (tund)

1. Arabic spelling of tund (“spicy”)

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): [tunð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊn̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊn̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊn̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰun̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰon̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰun̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	tund
Dari reading?	tund
Iranian reading?	tond
Tajik reading?	tund

• Audio (Iran):

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Adjective

Dari	تُند
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тунд

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 (tʻund)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܢܕ (tund)
• → Azerbaijani: tünd
• → Khalaj: tund
• → 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tund”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], 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)