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noun - an ancient Iranian language
The Zend-Avesta.
ZEND - Zend or Zand is a Zoroastrian technical term for exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts. The term zand ...
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| Zoroastrian scriptures |
| Avestan, ancient East-Iranian Indo-European language |
| - - -Avesta, sacred writings of the Parsees |
| -- -Avesta, ancient sacred writings of the Parsees |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jul 15 2018 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Nov 22 2015 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Sep 11 2005 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Feb 5 1999 New York Times |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Zend, Lobaye, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC |
| Zend, Est, CAMEROON |
| Zend, Centre, CAMEROON |
| Zend description |
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Zend or Zand is a Zoroastrian technical term for exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts. The term zand is a contraction of the Avestan language word zainti, meaning "interpretation", or "as understood". * Zand glosses and commentaries exist in several languages, including in the Avestan language itself. These Avestan language exegeses sometimes accompany the original text being commented upon, but are more often elsewhere in the canon. An example of exegesis in the Avestan language itself includes Yasna 19-21, which is a set of three Younger Avestan commentaries on the three Gathic Avestan 'high prayers' of Yasna 27. Zand also appear to have once existed in a variety of Middle Iranian languages, but of these Middle Iranian commentaries, the Middle Persian zand is the only to survive fully, and is for this reason regarded as 'the' zand.With the notable exception of the Yashts, almost all surviving Avestan texts have their Middle Persian zand, |