خنده

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (hndytn' /⁠xandīdan⁠/, to laugh), from Proto-Indo-European *kʰendʰ-. Cognates with Sogdian [script needed] (γnt- /⁠xand-⁠/, to laugh), Northern Kurdish kenîn (to laugh), Khotanese khan- (to laugh), Baluchi کندگ (kandag, to laugh), and Old Armenian խինդ (xind), Northern Luri خںنںە (xənə) and Pashto خندل and خنده (laugh, to laugh).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xanda
Dari reading? xanda
Iranian reading? xande
Tajik reading? xanda
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Noun

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Dari خنده
Iranian Persian
Tajik ханда

خنده (xande)

  1. laughing; a laugh; laughter
    • 11th century, Abulfazl Bayhaqi, edited by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi, page 83:
      و وی هر کسی را لطف می‌کرد و زهر خنده می‌زد – و به هیچ روزگار من او را با خندهٔ فراخ ندیدم، الا همه تبسم، که صعب مردی بود – و سخت فرو شده بود؛ چنان که گفتی می‌داند که چه خواهد بود.
      and he was doing acts of kindness to everyone [visiting him] and was doing forced laughing – and in all my life I never saw him with a joyful laugh, except only smiles, since he was a tough man – and he was so thoughtful; such that he knew what was about to happen.

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