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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nind (निन्द्).—1 P. (nindati, nindita, praṇindati) To blame, censure, find fault with, revile, reproach, condemn; निनिन्द रूपं हृदयेन पार्वती (nininda rūpaṃ hṛdayena pārvatī) Kumārasambhava 5.1; सा निन्दन्ती स्वानि भाग्यानि बाला (sā nindantī svāni bhāgyāni bālā) Ś. 5.3; Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 2.36; Manusmṛti 3.42.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nind (निन्द्):—or nid [class] 1. [Parasmaipada] nindati, [Epic] also te (the form nid only in 3. [plural] [perfect tense] ninidus, in the [Desiderative] and in some deriv. See under 1. nid and ninitsu below; [perfect tense] nininda, [Mahābhārata]; [Aorist] anindiṣur, [Ṛg-veda]; nindiṣat, [Atharva-veda]; [Potential] nindyāt, [Upaniṣad]; [future] nindiṣyati, [Vopadeva]; ninditā, [Mahābhārata]; [indeclinable participle] -nindya, [ib.]),

—to blame, censure, revile, despise, ridicule, [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.:—[Desiderative] ninitsati, te, to wish to blame etc., [Ṛg-veda; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra] cf. [Greek] ὄ-νειδος.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Nind (निन्द्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇiṃda.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Nind in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) sleep, slumber; —[ana] to feel like sleeping, to be sleepy; —[ucatana] sleep to be dissipated, to have one’s sleep broken abruptly; —[udana] one’s sleep to vanish, not to be able even to wink; -, [kumbhakarna ki] long lasting sleep without rocking; —[khulana/tutana] to be awakened from one’s sleep; —, [gahari] sound sleep, sleep like a log; —[bhara sona] to have one’s fill of sleep; —[lena] to have a sleep/nap; —[harama karana] to disturb one’s sleep, not to allow one to sleep in peace..—nind (नींद) is alternatively transliterated as Nīṃda.

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Starts with (+41): Nimdanaya, Nimdane, Nimdaya, Nimde, Nimdegara, Nimdia, Nimdirike, Nimdirisu, Nimdisu, Nimdopame, Ninda, Ninda-gama, Ninda-garnu, Ninda-lekha, Nindacarca, Nindacharchaa, Nindak, Nindaka, Nindakara, Nindakhora.

Ends with: Manind, Parinind, Pranind, Pratinind, Vinind.

Full-text (+12): Ninda, Nindana, Nindaka, Nid, Nindyata, Nindita, Parininda, Pranindana, Nindu, Nindya, Ninitsu, Nindati, Nindaniya, Ninditri, Parinindana, Nindin, Pratinind, Nindopama, Vinind, Vinid.

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Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)

Part 6: Mahāvīra and Śūlapāṇi < [Chapter III - Mahāvīra’s first six years as an ascetic]

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Folk Tales of Gujarat (and Jhaverchand Meghani) (by Vandana P. Soni)

Works of Jhaverchand Meghani

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