hind

See also: Hind

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪnd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *hinder

Old English hindan

Middle English hinde

English hind

From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), German hinter (“behind, beyond”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

Adjective

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:

     Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

2. Backward; to the rear.

Derived terms

• afterhind
• ahind
• ahint
• behind
• heinie
• hind-body
• hindbrain
• hindcast
• hind claw
• hindcloth
• hindcrown
• hindfin
• hindflipper
• hindfoot
• hindforemost
• hindgut
• hindhead
• hind leg
• hind limb
• hindlock
• hindlook
• hindmilk
• hindneck
• hindpart
• hindpocket
• hindquarter
• hind quarters
• hindside
• hindsight
• hind teat
• hindthought
• hind tit
• hindward
• hindwards
• hindwater
• hind wing
• hindwing
• oxhind
• suck hind tit

Translations

located at the rear

• Arabic: خَلْفِيّ (ḵalfiyy)
• Belarusian: за́дні (zádni), ты́льны (týlʹny)
• Bulgarian: за́ден (bg) (záden)
• Catalan: posterior (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後面的 / 后面的 (zh) (hòumiàn de)

• Czech: zadní (cs)
• Dutch: achterste (nl)
• Esperanto: malantaŭa
• Finnish: taka- (fi)
• French: arrière (fr), postérieur (fr)
• German: hinterer (de), Rück- (de)
• Hungarian: hátsó (hu), hátulsó (hu)
• Italian: posteriore (it), didietro (it)
• Japanese: 後ろの (ja) (うしろの, ushiro no), 後方の (ja) (こうほうの, kōhō no)
• Korean: 뒤의 (ko) (dwiui), 배후의 (ko) (baehuui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پاشوو (paşû)

• Macedonian: заден (zaden)
• Māori: takamuri
• Polish: tylny (pl), zadni (pl)
• Portuguese: traseiro (pt), posterior (pt)
• Romanian: posterior (ro)
• Russian: за́дний (ru) (zádnij), ты́льный (ru) (týlʹnyj), хвостово́й (ru) (xvostovój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̏дњӣ

  Latin: zȁdnjī (sh)

• Slovak: zadný (sk)
• Slovene: zadnji (sl)
• Spanish: trasero (es)
• Ukrainian: за́дній (zádnij), ти́льний (týlʹnyj)

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-der.

Proto-Germanic *hindiz

Proto-West Germanic *hindi

Old English hind

Middle English hynde

English hind

Inherited from Middle English hynde, hynd, from Old English hind, from Proto-West Germanic *hindi, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

Noun

hind (countable and uncountable, plural hind or hinds)

1. A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 3:

     Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

     The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

Synonyms

• (female deer): doe

Derived terms

• hindberry
• red hind

Translations

female deer

• Armenian: եղնիկ (hy) (eġnik)
• Asturian: venada (ast)
• Bulgarian: сърна (bg) f (sărna), кошута (bg) f (košuta)
• Czech: laň (cs) f
• Dutch: hinde (nl) f
• Esperanto: cervino
• Finnish: saksanhirvinaaras
• French: biche (fr) f
• German: Hinde (de) f, Hirschkuh (de) f, weiblicher Hirsch m
• Hindi: हिरनी (hi) f (hirnī)
• Hungarian: szarvastehén (hu), ünő (hu)
• Icelandic: hind (is) f
• Italian: cerva (it) f
• Latin: cerva f
• Middle English: hynde
• Norwegian: hind (no) m or f
• Old English: hind
• Polish: łania (pl) f
• Portuguese: corça (pt) f
• Romanian: ciută (ro) f
• Russian: самка оленя f (samka olenja), оле́ниха (ru) f (olénixa), олени́ха (ru) f (oleníxa)
• Serbo-Croatian: кошута f, košuta (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jelenica f

  Upper Sorbian: jelenica f

• Spanish: cierva (es) f
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎊𐎍𐎚 (ʿylt)
• Ukrainian: олени́ця (uk) f (olenýcja)
• Volapük: (♂♀) stäg (vo), (♂) histäg (vo), (♀) jistäg (vo)
• Yiddish: הינד f (hind)

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-der.

Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-wo-sder.

Proto-Germanic *hīwôder.

Proto-Germanic *hīwōnō

Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn

Anglian Old English hīgander.

Anglian Old English hīna

Middle English hyne

English hind

Inherited from Middle English hyne, from Old English hīna, genitive of hīgan pl (“servants, household”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition; it usually expained as a phonetic excrescence like in sound. But influence from etymology 1 (“rear”) or its relatives (especially the reflexes of Proto-Germanic *hinder) is also possible, as has been suggested for the cognate Old Frisian hīnde: the low-status servant can be easily conceptualised as an individual who is "behind" in a hierarchical sequence.

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Parcimony of Our Forefathers”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 167:

     Attilius Regulus […] writ vnto the common-wealth, that a hynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge […].

   • 1792, Robert Bowmaker, “Number LI. Parish of Dunse, (County of Berwick.)”, in John Sinclair, editor, The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed and sold by William Creech [et al.], →OCLC, page 386:

     The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]

   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale‎^[2], page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931 April 23, Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, The Good Earth, 3rd British edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1931, →OCLC:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hind.

Further reading

• “hind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “hind”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dinh

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هِنْد (hind). Cognate with Turkish Hint, Uzbek hind.

Noun

hind (definite accusative hindi, plural hindlər)

1. (uncommon now) Indian (person from India)

   Synonyms: hindli, (Classical Azerbaijani) hindi

2. (in izafet II compounds)
   1. Hindi

      hind dili ― Hindi language

   2. Indian (of or relating to India)

Declension

Declension of hind

	singular	plural
nominative	hind	hindlər
definite accusative	hindi	hindləri
dative	hində	hindlərə
locative	hinddə	hindlərdə
ablative	hinddən	hindlərdən
definite genitive	hindin	hindlərin

Possessive forms of hind

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindim	hindlərim
sənin (“your”)	hindin	hindlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindi	hindləri
bizim (“our”)	hindimiz	hindlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	hindiniz	hindləriniz
onların (“their”)	hindi or hindləri	hindləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindimi	hindlərimi
sənin (“your”)	hindini	hindlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindini	hindlərini
bizim (“our”)	hindimizi	hindlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	hindinizi	hindlərinizi
onların (“their”)	hindini or hindlərini	hindlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindimə	hindlərimə
sənin (“your”)	hindinə	hindlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindinə	hindlərinə
bizim (“our”)	hindimizə	hindlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	hindinizə	hindlərinizə
onların (“their”)	hindinə or hindlərinə	hindlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindimdə	hindlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	hindində	hindlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindində	hindlərində
bizim (“our”)	hindimizdə	hindlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	hindinizdə	hindlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	hindində or hindlərində	hindlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindimdən	hindlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	hindindən	hindlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindindən	hindlərindən
bizim (“our”)	hindimizdən	hindlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	hindinizdən	hindlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	hindindən or hindlərindən	hindlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hindimin	hindlərimin
sənin (“your”)	hindinin	hindlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	hindinin	hindlərinin
bizim (“our”)	hindimizin	hindlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	hindinizin	hindlərinizin
onların (“their”)	hindinin or hindlərinin	hindlərinin

Derived terms

• Hind okeanı (“Indian Ocean”)
• hindcə (“in Hindi”)
• hinddilli (“Hindi-language; Hindi-speaking”)
• hindi
• Hindistan (“India”)
• hindli

Further reading

• “hind” in Obastan.com.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /henˀ/, [henˀ]

Noun

hind c (singular definite hinden, plural indefinite hinder or hinde)

1. hind (female deer)

Declension

Declension of hind

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hind	hinden	hinder hinde	hinderne hindene
genitive	hinds	hindens	hinders hindes	hindernes hindenes

See also

• då

References

• “hind” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta. Cognate with Finnish hinta and Votic intõ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhind̥/, [ˈ(h)ind̥]
• Rhymes: -ind
• Hyphenation: hind

Noun

hind (genitive hinna, partitive hinda)

1. price (the monetary expression of the value of a good, the amount of money or some other material value that is given in exchange for buying something or that is demanded when selling something)
   • 1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XI, in Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice)‎^[3], page 79:

     Küll arvas ka tema, et kraav on Pearu oma, sest ta seisis ju tema krundil, aga peale selle arvas ta veel, et temal, Andresel, oleks pidanud õigus olema esimese vee jooksmist näha, sest tema oli ju kraavi eest poole hinda maksnud ja vett oli kraavi kahtlemata rohkem tulnud tema kui Pearu maa seest.

     He also thought that the ditch belonged to Pearu, because it was on his land, but he also thought that he, Andres, should have had the right to see the first water running, because he had paid half the price for the ditch and the water had undoubtedly come more from his land than from Pearu's.

Declension

Declension of hind (ÕS type 22u/leib, nd-nn gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hind	hinnad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hinna
genitive			hindade
partitive		hinda	hindu hindasid
illative		hinda hinnasse	hindadesse hinnusse
inessive		hinnas	hindades hinnus
elative		hinnast	hindadest hinnust
allative		hinnale	hindadele hinnule
adessive		hinnal	hindadel hinnul
ablative		hinnalt	hindadelt hinnult
translative		hinnaks	hindadeks hinnuks
terminative		hinnani	hindadeni
essive		hinnana	hindadena
abessive		hinnata	hindadeta
comitative		hinnaga	hindadega

Derived terms

• iga hinna eest

References

• hind in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “hind”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪnt/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hinna.

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. membrane

Declension

f2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hind	hindin	hindir	hindirnar
accusative	hind	hindina	hindir	hindirnar
dative	hind	hindini	hindum	hindunum
genitive	hindar	hindarinnar	hinda	hindanna

Synonyms

• hinna

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. hind (female deer)

Declension

f2	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hind	hindin	hindir	hindirnar
accusative	hind	hindina	hindir	hindirnar
dative	hind	hindini	hindum	hindunum
genitive	hindar	hindarinnar	hinda	hindanna

Derived terms

• hindber

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic *hindiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɪnt]
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, nominative plural hindir)

1. female deer, hind

Declension

Declension of hind (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hind	hindin	hindir	hindirnar
accusative	hind	hindina	hindir	hindirnar
dative	hind	hindinni	hindum	hindunum
genitive	hindar	hindarinnar	hinda	hindanna

Old English

Alternative forms

• hindc, hynd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hindi, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xind/, [hind]

Noun

hind f

1. hind, doe

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hind	hinde, hinda
accusative	hind, hinde	hinde, hinda
genitive	hinde	hinda
dative	hinde	hindum

Derived terms

• hindċealf

Descendants

• Middle English: hynde
  • English: hind
  • Middle Scots: hynde, hyne
    • Scots: hind

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hind”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (in Old English), second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Alternative forms

• hynd, hynde, hyne, hin, hine

Etymology

From Early Scots hyne (“stripling”), from Northumbrian Old English hīġu or hīġan (“members of a household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhəin(d)/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪnd/

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially a ploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.

Derived terms

• hindin (“the act of being a hind”)
• hindish (“to be like a hind; rustic”)

Slovak

Noun

hind m pers

1. Hindu

Further reading

• “hind”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hind, cognate with Old High German hinta, German Hinde, English hind.

Noun

hind c

1. a doe, a hind; the female of deer

   skygg som en hind

   shy as a doe

   Man kan ej för samma kärra spänna en häst och en hind.

   One can not harness to the same cart a horse and a trembling doe.

Declension

Declension of hind

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hind	hinds
	definite	hinden	hindens
plural	indefinite	hindar	hindars
	definite	hindarna	hindarnas

References

• “hind”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hind”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Uzbek

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai هند (hnd /⁠hind⁠/), from Classical Persian هِنْد (hind).

Noun

hind

1. Indian (person from India)

   hind tili ― Hindi

Derived terms

• hindcha
• Hindiston

Related terms

• indeys