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Zend can mean: Zend , commentaries on the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism In 19th century scholarship, 'Zend' was also a misnomer for the Avestan language Salla Zend, a character in Star Wars Zend Technologies , a computer software company Zend ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zend \Zend\, n. [See Zend-Avesta .] Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv[^a]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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715, "Parsee sacred book" (in full, Zend-Avesta , 1620s), from Old Persian zend , from Pahlavi zand "commentary." First used 1771 in reference to the language of the Zend-Avesta by French scholar Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805).
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This collection is sometimes called Zendavesta, sometimes briefly Zend.
Thus, according to the Zend Avesta, it is by the Word (honover) more ancient than the world, that Ormuzd created the universe.
But the subject is more satisfactorily illustrated in Bopp's comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, and German languages.