Zend – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Zend
n.
Avesta, sacred Scriptures of the Zoroastrian religion; translation and clarification of the Avesta in Pahlavi; ancient Iranian language
Zend
Zend or
Zand is a
Zoroastrian technical term for
exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the
Avesta's texts. The term
zand is a contraction of the
Avestan language word
zainti, meaning "interpretation", or "as understood".
Zend
Noun
1. an ancient Iranian language
(synonym) Avestan
(hypernym) Iranian, Iranian language
zenden
v.
send, consign, helm
Zend
(n.)
Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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