کنده

See also: گندہ and گنده

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Term?]. Akin to Old Armenian քանդակ (kʻandak), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [kan.da]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰän̪.d̪ä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰän̪.d̪ä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰän̪.d̪ä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰän̪.d̪ä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲæn̪.d̪e]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰän̪.d̪ä]

Readings
Classical reading?	kanda
Iranian reading?	kande
Tajik reading?	kanda

Noun

کنده • (kande)

1. (archaic) moat

Alternative forms

• کندک (kandak), کندگ (kandag), خندک (xandak), خندق (xandaq)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [kun.da]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊn̪.d̪ä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊn̪.d̪ä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰʊn̪.d̪ä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰun̪.d̪ä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰon̪.d̪e]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰun̪.d̪ä]

Readings
Classical reading?	kunda
Iranian reading?	konde
Tajik reading?	kunda

Noun

کنده • (konde)

1. log
2. the stocks for offenders, a kind of clog or wooden fetters for captives

Related terms

• کند (kond)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: kündə

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کنده”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1054
• Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria (2001) “Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-)”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1], volume 5, pages 201–206