Definition of zend:

part of speech: noun

The anc. Persian tongue- the language in which the Avesta is written.

Usage examples:

• Daruj, Puyri of Zend C. S. Rafinesque in "The American Nations, Vol. I.".

• 2. In the Zend and Persian languages of Iran. C. S. Rafinesque in "The American Nations, Vol. I.".

• But, perhaps, we may find in Persia what we lack in India; and as the modern Persian is descended from the Zend and as the Zend is a sister to the Sanskrit, Persia may, perhaps, supply such a locality. Robert Gordon Latham in "The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies".