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zend
Part of speech: NounThe anc. Persian tongue- the language in which the Avesta is written.
Usage examples "zend":- Anquetil gives a drawing of it in his Zend- Avesia. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- One of these was Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, who wrote part of the Zend- Avesta and founded a religion which in some points resembles ours, and Zarathustra, according to the scholars, flourished at least eight hundred years before Christ. - "The Social Cancer A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere", José Rizal.
- Two competitors for the Crown appeared in the South, in the persons of Fateh Ali Shah's own father, and a son of Zaki Khan Zend; but both, as well as the Shekaki chief who advanced similar claims in the North, and Nadir Mirza, grandson of the great Nadir Shah, who had entered Khorasan from Afghanistan, and raised the standard of revolt, were soon defeated and driven into submission. - "Persia Revisited", Thomas Edward Gordon.