نیند

Urdu

Etymology

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. Cognate with Punjabi نِینْدَر (nīndar), Marathi नीद (nīd), and Gujarati નીંદર (nī̃dar).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /niːnd̪/, [nĩːnd̪]
  • Audio (Pakistan)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːnd̪

Noun

نِینْد • (nīnd) f (Hindi spelling नींद) (uncountable)

  1. sleep, slumber
    Synonym: اُون٘گھ (ūṅgh, “slumber”)
  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”)

Further reading
  • “نیند”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “نیند”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نيند”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نيند”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “نیند”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “نیند”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nidrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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