खण्ड

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /kʰəɳɖ/, [kʰɐ̃ɳɖ]

खण्ड • (khaṇḍ) m (Urdu spelling کھنڈ)

1. alternative spelling of खंड (khaṇḍ)

• काण्ड॑ (kā́ṇḍa), का॒ण्ड (kāṇḍá)

An internally-derived word, likely of non-Indo-European origin but no convincing Dravidian or Munda sources.^[1] Mayrhofer mentions a potential connection to क्षद् (kṣad, “to cut, carve”).

Part of the Indo-Aryan "defective" group of words.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʰɐɳ.ɖɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kʰɐɳ.ɖɐ/

खण्ड • (khaṇḍa) stem, m or n

1. a break, gap
2. a chip, piece, slice, bit, portion, fragment
3. clause, chapter, section (of a work, document)
4. candied sugar, dried molasses, treacle
5. (archaic) a variety of sugar cane
6. a continent
7. (algebra) a term in an equation
8. a party, number, multitude, assemblage

खण्ड • (khaṇḍa) stem, m

1. a flaw in a jewel
2. a calf with horns half-grown
3. (music) a kind of measure

खण्ड • (khaṇḍa) stem

1. broken, having chasms or gaps or breaks
2. deficient, defective, crippled
3. not full (as the moon)

• Pali: khaṇḍa (“piece”), khaṇḍikā (“broken bit, stick”)
• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: khōṇḍa (“half”)
  • Kashmiri: کھونڈ (khonḍụ, “broken, maimed”)
• Western:
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਖੰਨਾ (khannā), ਖੰਨੀ (khannī)

    Shahmukhi script: کھَنَّا (khannā), کھَنِّی (khanniī)

    • Lahnda: کھنا (“piece, a scrap of bread”)
  • Sindhi:

    Devanagari script: खनु (khanu), खनी (khanī)

    Arabic script: کَنُ (khanu), کَنِي (khanī)

• Central:
  • Gujarati: ખાંદું (khā̃dũ, “broken”)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: खंडा (khaṇḍā), खण्डा (khaṇḍā)

    Urdu: کھَنڈَا (khaṇḍā)

  • Romani: xai̦i
    • Romano-Greek: xandí, xanrík (“a little”), xarno (“humble, low”)
• Eastern:
  • Assamese: -খন (-khon)
  • Bengali: -খান (-khan), -খানা (-khana), -খানি (-khani)
  • Bihari: खंडा, खाँड़ी (“a woman's sari”)
    • Bhojpuri: खाँड़ा (khā̃ṛā, “piece”)
• Northern:
  • Kumaoni: खन (khan, “half”), खानुड़ो (khānuṛo, “piece”)
  • Nepali: खणेउलि (khaṇeuli, “broken bits of rice”)
• Southern:
  • Marathi: खंड (khaṇḍa, “piece”), खंडोळें (khaṇḍoḷẽ, “piece”)
  • Sinhalese: කඩ (kaḍa, “broken piece, piece, piece of cloth”)

Borrowed Terms

• → Gawar-Bati: کھݨڈ (khaṇḍa, “hill pasture”) (learned)
• → Bengali: খণ্ড (khonḍo) (learned)
• → Hindustani: (learned)

  Hindi: खंड (khaṇḍ), खण्ड (khaṇḍ)

  Urdu: کھنڈ (khaṇḍ)

• → Odia: ଖଣ୍ଡ (khaṇḍa) (learned)
• → Punjabi: (learned)

  Gurmukhi script: ਖੰਡ (khaṇḍ)

  Shahmukhi script: کھنڈ (khaṇḍ)

• → Middle Persian:
  • Classical Persian: کند (kand) (see there for further descendants)
• → Telugu: ఖండము (khaṇḍamu)

• Monier Williams (1899), “खण्ड”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 336/1.