نیند

Urdu

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-Iranian *HnidráH

Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā)

Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā)

Urdu نِینْد (nīnd)

Inherited from Middle Hindi نیند (nīnd) / نید (nīd), from Old Hindi نیند (nīnd /⁠nynd⁠/) / نید (nīd /⁠nyd⁠/) / نندا (nindā), from Prakrit 𑀡𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀸 (ṇiddā), from Sanskrit निद्रा (nidrā́), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HnidráH.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /niːnd̪/, [nĩːnd̪]

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• Rhymes: -iːnd̪

Noun

نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद)

1. sleep, slumber

   Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh, “slumber”)

   Antonym: جاگ (jāg, “wake; wakefulness”)

   • 2004, Iqbal Niazi, سب ٹھیک ہے: اسٹیج ڈرامے [Everything's fine: Stage Dramas] (fiction), page 136:

     ہم سو نہیں رہے ہیں۔ ہم سو کیسے سکتے ہیں ،اُس بوڑھے نے تو ہماری نیندیں اُڑا دی ہیں۔

     ham so nahī̃ rahe ha͠i. ham so kaise sakte ha͠i, us būṛhe ne to hamārī nīndẽ uṛā dī ha͠i.

     We're not sleeping. How can we sleep? That old man has crashed our sleep.

2. (by extension) dream

   Synonym: سوتا (sotā)

3. (figuratively) death, eternal sleep
4. (figuratively, informal) sloth, tiredness, laziness

   Synonym: سُسْتی (sustī)

Declension

Declension of نیند
	singular	plural
direct	نِیند (nīnd)	نِیندیں (nīndẽ)
oblique	نِیند (nīnd)	نِیندوں (nīndõ)
vocative	نِیند (nīnd)	نِیندو (nīndo)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• نِینْد آنی (nīnd ānī, “to feel sleepy”)
• نِینْد پَڑْنی (nīnd paṛnī, “to be sleepy; to fall asleep”)

Further reading

• “نیند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “نيند”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]