فرند

Arabic

Alternative forms

• إِفْرِنْد (ʔifrind)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (parand) (Persian پَرَنْد (parand)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.rind/

Noun

فِرِنْد • (firind) m (plural فَرَانِد (farānid))

1. silk, damask

   Synonym: وَشْي (wašy)

   • c. 950, أبو دلف مسعر بن مهلهل [ʾAbū Dulaf Misʿar Ibn Muhalhal], edited by Kurd von Schlözer, De itinere Asiatico commentarium‎, published 1845 ^{WC GB}, pages 18–19:

     فخرجت إلى الساحل أربد بكلة وهذا أول الهند ومنتهى مسير المراكب لا يتهيّأ لها أن يتجاوزها وألا غرقت قال فلما وصلت إلى كلة رأيته وهي عظيمة عالية السور كثيرة البساتين غزيرة الماء ووجدت بها معدن الرصاص القلعي لا يكون إلا في قلعتها في سائر الدنيا، وفي هذه القلعة تضرب السيوف القلعية، وهي الهندية العتيقة … وأهل هذه القلعة يمتنعون على ملكها إذا أرادوا يطيعونه إن أحبوا ورسمهم رسم الصين في ترك الذبائح وليس في جميع الدنيا معدن الرصاص القلعي إلا في هذه القلعة وبينهما وبين الصين ثلثمائة فرسخ وحولها مدن ورساتيق وقرى ولهم أحكام وحبوس وخبايات وأكلهم البر والتمور وبقولهم كلها تباع وزنا وأرغفة خبزهم تباع عددا ولا حمامات لهم بل عندهم عين جارية يغتسلون فيها ودرهمهم يزن ثلثي درهم ويعرف بالفهري ولهم فلوس يتعاملون بها ويلبسون كأهل الصين الإفرند الصيني المثمن وملكها دون ملك الصين ويخطب لملك الصين وقبلته إليه وبيت عبادته له.

     And I went off to the dusty shore of Kala, which is the first and ultimate end of India for vessels, as nobody even dares to imagine to pass by it since he would drown. When I arrived at Kala, I conned it and it is large and has high walls, many gardens and plenty of water, and I found mines of tin not found in the rest of the world but in Qalʿa, and in this Qalʿa one forges the Qalʿaite swords, the excellent Indian ones, and the populace of this Qalʿa withstands its king when it wants and abides by him when it lists, and their tradition is like the tradition of China, refraining from slaughtering beasts, and there aren’t in all the world tin mines but in this Qalʿa, and between them two and China are three-hundred parasang, and there are towns, rural districts and villages, and they have jurisdiction, jails, and corbans, and their food is wheat and dates and all their vegetables they buy by scales, and their bread is bread-rolls they buy by count. They have no baths but a running spring in which they wash, and their dirham weighs as a third-dirham and is known as Fahrī, and they have fulūs with which they commerce, and they dress like the people of China in dear Chinese silks, and their king is subordinate to the King of China, reports to the King of China, his praying direction is to him, his place of sacrifice is towards him.

2. the damask of a sword, that is the diversified way marks, streaks, grain, or water of the sword; and the sword itself, or poetically any good sword

   Synonym: وَشْي (wašy)

Declension

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِرِنْد firind	الْفِرِنْد al-firind	فِرِنْد firind
Nominative	فِرِنْدٌ firindun	الْفِرِنْدُ al-firindu	فِرِنْدُ firindu
Accusative	فِرِنْدًا firindan	الْفِرِنْدَ al-firinda	فِرِنْدَ firinda
Genitive	فِرِنْدٍ firindin	الْفِرِنْدِ al-firindi	فِرِنْدِ firindi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فِرِنْدَيْن firindayn	الْفِرِنْدَيْن al-firindayn	فِرِنْدَيْ firinday
Nominative	فِرِنْدَانِ firindāni	الْفِرِنْدَانِ al-firindāni	فِرِنْدَا firindā
Accusative	فِرِنْدَيْنِ firindayni	الْفِرِنْدَيْنِ al-firindayni	فِرِنْدَيْ firinday
Genitive	فِرِنْدَيْنِ firindayni	الْفِرِنْدَيْنِ al-firindayni	فِرِنْدَيْ firinday
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	فَرَانِد farānid	الْفَرَانِد al-farānid	فَرَانِد farānid
Nominative	فَرَانِدُ farānidu	الْفَرَانِدُ al-farānidu	فَرَانِدُ farānidu
Accusative	فَرَانِدَ farānida	الْفَرَانِدَ al-farānida	فَرَانِدَ farānida
Genitive	فَرَانِدَ farānida	الْفَرَانِدِ al-farānidi	فَرَانِدِ farānidi

Declension of noun فِرِنْد (firind)