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Zend

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts.

    "Zand or 'Interpretation' is a term for the exegesis of Avestan texts through glosses, commentaries and translations."

  2. 2
    The Avestan language. dated

    "As to grammatical forms, the Gâtha dialect shows not a few deviations from the current Zend language."

Noun
  1. 1
    an ancient Iranian language, used as the language of Zoroastrian scripture wordnet

Etymology

Via Zoroastrian Middle Persian znd (zand, “understanding, interpretation”), from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬙𐬌 (zainti, “understanding”), from Avestan verbal root 𐬰𐬀𐬥- (zan-, “to know, to understand”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

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