قند

From Persian کند‎ (kand, “candied sugar”), from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “scrap, broken piece, candied sugar, dried molasses”).

قَنْد • (qand) m (plural قُنُود‎ (qunūd))

1. rock sugar (originally: the solidified sap of the sugarcane)

• → 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)
      • → Tagalog: kendi

From Persian قند‎ (qand), from Classical Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand).

• (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /qənd/, (q-ʁ merger) /ʁənd/

قَنْد • (qand) m (collective, singulative قَنْدة‎ (qanda), plural قَنْدات‎ (qandāt))

1. sugar cube

The word can be used with حَبّة‎ (ḥabba, “piece”) to indicate number of pieces, for example: حطلي حبتين قند بالچاي‎ (ḥiṭli ḥabbitēn qand bič-čāy, “Put two pieces of sugar cube in the tea for me”). Alternatively, regular plural (and dual) can be used, eg: حطلي قندتين بالچاي‎ (ḥiṭli qanditēn bič-čāy, “Put two sugar cubes in the tea for me”). Finally, the word can be used as is preceded by a number, ex: حطلي اثنين قند بالچاي‎ (ḥiṭli aṯnēn qand bič-čāy, “Put two sugar cube in the tea for me”).

From Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand, “rock sugar”), from Persian کند‎ (kand, “candied sugar”), from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “scrap, broken piece, candied sugar, dried molasses”).

قند • (kand)

1. rock sugar, sugar candy, crystals of sucrose

• قندی‎ (kandi, “made of sugar candy”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3767–3768
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1477

From Arabic قَنْد‎ (qand), displacing older کند‎ (kand) or کاند‎ (kând).

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قند • (qand) (plural قندها‎ (qand-hâ))

1. sugar cube

• قندی‎ (qandi)
• قندان‎ (qandân)
• کله‌قند‎ (kalle-qand)
• چغندر قند‎ (čoğondar-e qand)

• → Gulf Arabic: قند‎ (qand)