رند

Akin to Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩬𐩵‎ (rnd, “Artemisia arborescens syn. Artemisia abyssinica”). Alleged to be a metathesis of what is found as Hebrew נֵרְדְּ‎ (nerd), Aramaic נִרְדָּא‎ (nirdā), Akkadian 𒆠𒆗 (HIRIM /lardu/), Ancient Greek νᾰ́ρδος (nárdos), Sanskrit नलद (nalada).

• IPA^(key): /rand/

رَنْد • (rand) m

1. laurel (Laurus nobilis)

   Synonym: غَار‎ (ḡār)

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 4, page 154–155:

     ‏ويغرس في المواضع الرطب الكبيرة والندوة منها النشم والغرب والصفيراء والأيرج والميس والرند ويتوخى أن يكون شجر الأترج في مواضع مستور عن الريح الجوفية والريح الغربية مكشوف للريح القبلية.‎‎

     One plants on moist, spacious and humid places there elms, willows, planetree maples, citrons, hackberries, and laurels, and it is to be taken care that the citron is covered from northern and western winds and open for southeastern winds.

2. aloeswood, agarwood

   Synonym: عُود‎ (ʿūd)

3. (Yemen) Artemisia arborescens syn. Artemisia abyssinica

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “رند”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 561
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “رند”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 198
• Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 276–277
• “nrdyn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• H5373 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

رند • (rand)

1. then
2. after
3. afterwards
4. later