Zend

American  

[zend] / zɛnd /

noun

1. Zoroastrianism. a translation and exposition of the Avesta in Pahlavi.

2. Archaic. Avestan.

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Zend British  

/ zɛnd /

noun

1. a former name for Avestan

2. short for Zend-Avesta

3. an exposition of the Avesta in the Middle Persian language (Pahlavi)

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Other Word Forms

• Zendic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Zend

First recorded in 1690–1700; see origin at Zend-Avesta

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Example Sentences

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Zend

“Not cold. Happy!” shouted Jenny Zend, a 30-year-old originally from Fujian Province in China who stood on East Broadway in a floor-length champagne-colored fur coat as temperatures struggled to climb out of the single digits.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2016

Apem means “Water,” in Zend, an ancient Persian dialect.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Arthur James Johnes

II. respecting the Magian religion, by giving an analysis of the celebrated Zend Avesta, a translation of which into French, by Anquetil du Perron, I had recently procured for the purpose.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman

The relations which the Parsian, the Pehlwi, and the Zend, the ancient dialects of Persia, bear to those of the surrounding countries, seem to be in a highly interesting manner confirmatory of Adelung's views.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Arthur James Johnes

The Hindoos have the Vedas and many others, the Persians the Zend Avesta—the Egyptians had the Book of the Dead—the Aztecs the Popol Vuh, and the Mohammedans have the Koran.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

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