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noun

Zend n. Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzvâresh, 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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Zend" Quotes from Famous Books

... was not religion in our sense of the word, and although the Iliad certainly never enjoyed among Greeks the authority either of the Bible, or even of the Veda among the Brahmans, or the Zend Avesta among the Parsis, yet I would not deny altogether that in a certain sense the mythology of the Greeks belonged to their religion. We must only be on our guard, here as everywhere else, against ...

— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller

... itself drawn to the sages of Mongolia or to the hermits on Lebanon; I longed for interviews with the Llamas of Tibet or with the padris of Portugal, and I would gladly sit with the priests of the Parsis and the learned of the Zend-avesta. I was sick of the ...

— Rulers of India: Akbar • George Bruce Malleson

Words linked to "Zend" : Iranian, Zend-Avesta, Avestan, Iranian language