zend Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an ancient Iranian language
    Avestan.

WordNet

Zend noun
Etymology
See Zend-Avesta.
Definitions
  1. Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv&acir;resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.

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