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]

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• 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, 3^rd 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