پند

Etymology 1

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)

Noun

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

1. advice, counsel, guidance

Alternative forms

• فند‎ (fand)

Noun

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

1. (archaic) knack, trick, gimmick

References

• “پند” in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, Dehkhoda Dictionary, Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 1931–.
• 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