قند

From Persian کند (kand, “candied sugar”), from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “scrap, broken piece, candied sugar, dried molasses”).

قَنْد • (qand) m (plural قُنُود (qunūd))

1. rock sugar (originally: the solidified sap of the sugarcane)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قند (kand)
• → Persian: قند (qand)
  • → Gulf Arabic: قند (qand)
• ⇒ Old French: sucre candi
  • → Middle English: candy
    • English: candy, candee, candie, candil, kandy
      • → Cebuano: kendi
      • → Hindi: कैंडी (kaiṇḍī)
      • → Hopi: kyenti
      • → Japanese: キャンディ (kyandi)
      • → Kashubian: kindus (United States)
      • → Korean: 캔디 (kaendi)
      • → Tagalog: kendi

From Persian کند (kand, “candied sugar”), from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “scrap, broken piece, candied sugar, dried molasses”).

قند (qand) (uncountable)

1. sugar
2. sugar cube

From Persian قند (qand), from Classical Arabic قَنْد (qand).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /qənd/, (q-ʁ merger) /ʁənd/

قَنْد • (qand) m (collective, singulative قَنْدة (qanda), plural قَنْدات (qandāt))

1. sugar cube

The word can be used with حَبّة (ḥabba, “piece”) to indicate number of pieces, for example: حطلي حبتين قند بالچاي (ḥiṭli ḥabbitēn qand bič-čāy, “Put two pieces of sugar cube in the tea for me”). Alternatively, regular plural (and dual) can be used, eg: حطلي قندتين بالچاي (ḥiṭli qanditēn bič-čāy, “Put two sugar cubes in the tea for me”). Finally, the word can be used as is preceded by a number, ex: حطلي اثنين قند بالچاي (ḥiṭli aṯnēn qand bič-čāy, “Put two sugar cube in the tea for me”).

From Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock sugar”), from Persian کند (kand, “candied sugar”), from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “scrap, broken piece, candied sugar, dried molasses”).

قند • (kand)

1. rock sugar, sugar candy, crystals of sucrose

• قندی (kandi, “made of sugar candy”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 973
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قند”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3767–3768
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1477

Borrowed from Arabic قَنْد (qand), displacing older کند (kand) or کاند (kând).

Readings
Classical reading?	qand
Dari reading?	qand
Iranian reading?	ğand
Tajik reading?	qand

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قند • (qand) (plural قندها (qand-hâ))

1. sugar cube

• قندی (qandi)
• قندان (qandân)
• کله‌قند (kalle-qand)
• چغندر قند (čoğondar-e qand)

• → Gulf Arabic: قند (qand)