پند

From Middle Persian pnd (pand, “path; counsel, advice”) (compare Parthian pnd‎ (pand, “counsel”), pndʾn‎ (pandān, “path”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, walk; way, path”). Cognate with Old Armenian հուն (hun), Ancient Greek πάτος (pátos), πόντος (póntos), Latin pons, and Old Church Slavonic пѫть (pǫtĭ).

پند • (pand) (plural پندها‎ (pand-hâ))

1. advice, counsel, guidance

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• فند‎ (fand)

پند • (pand) (plural پندها‎ (pand-hâ))

1. (archaic) knack, trick, gimmick

• → Arabic: فَنّ‎ (fann)
  • Egyptian Arabic: فن‎ (fann)
  • ‌ → Bashkir: фән (fän)
  • → Hausa: fannī̀
  • → Kazakh: пән (pän)
  • → Persian: فن‎ (fann)
  • → Swahili: fani
  • → Turkish: fen
  • → Uzbek: fan

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “پند”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pand”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “pnd”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols