खण्ड

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kʰəɳɖ/, [kʰə̃ɳɖ]

खण्ड • (khaṇḍ) m (Urdu spelling کھنڈ‎)

1. Alternative spelling of खंड (khaṇḍ)

• काण्ड (kā́ṇḍa), काण्ड (kāṇḍá)

Of non-Indo-European, possibly Dravidian origin; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”), കണ്ടം (kaṇṭaṃ) (from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu), Tamil கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to harden, condense”).[1] Watkins instead suggests a borrowing from Munda.[2]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʰɐɳ.ɖɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɐɳ.ɖɐ/

खण्ड • (khaṇḍa) m or n

1. chip, piece, slice, bit, portion, fragment
2. clause, chapter, section (of a document)
3. candied sugar or dried molasses
4. (archaic) a variety of sugar cane

• Pali: khaṇḍa (“piece”), khaṇḍikā (“broken bit, stick”)
• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: khōṇḍa (“half”)
  • Kashmiri: کھونڈ‎ (khonḍụ, “broken, maimed”)
• Western:
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਖੰਨਾ (khannā), ਖੰਨੀ (khannī)

    Shahmukhi script: کھَنَّا‎ (khannā), کھَنِّی‎ (khannī)

    • • Lahnda: کھنا‎ (“piece, a scrap of bread”)
  • Sindhi:

    Devanagari script: खनु (khanu), खनी (khanī)

    Arabic script: کَنُ‎ (khanu), کَنِي‎ (khanī)

• Central:
  • Gujarati: ખાંદું (khā̃dũ, “broken”)
  • Hindustani:
    • Hindi: खंडा (khaṇḍā)
    • Urdu: کھَنڈَا‎
  • Romani: xai̦i
    • Romani Greek: xandí, xanrík (“a little”), xarno (“humble, low”)
• Eastern:
  • Assamese: -খন (-khon)
  • Bengali: -খান (-khan), -খানা (-khana), -খানি (-khani)
  • Bihari: खंडा, खाँड़ी (“a woman's sari”)
    • Bhojpuri: खाँड़ा (khā̃ṛā, “piece”)
• Northern:
  • Kumaoni: खन (khan, “half”), खानुड़ो (khānuṛo, “piece”)
  • Nepali: खणेउलि (khaṇeuli, “broken bits of rice”)
• Southern:
  • Marathi: खंड (khaṇḍa, “piece”), खंडोळें (khaṇḍoḷẽ, “piece”)
  • Sinhalese: කඩ (kaḍa, “broken piece, piece, piece of cloth”)

Borrowed Terms

• → Gawar-Bati: کھݨڈ (khaṇḍa, “hill pasture”)
• → Bengali: খণ্ড (khonḍo)
• → Hindustani: (learned)
  • Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ)
  • Urdu: کھنڈ‎
• → Punjabi: (learned)
  • Punjabi: ਖੰਡ (khaṇḍ)
• → Persian: کند‎ (kand)
  • → Azerbaijani: künd
  • → Arabic: قَنْد‎ (kand)
    • → 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
• → Telugu: ఖండము (khaṇḍamu)

• “Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 2012-03-06