چھند

छन्द ćhand [S. छन्दस् , in comp. छन्दो], s.m. A sacred hymn; the sacred text of the Vedic hymns; metrical science, prosody; poetical metre; a measure (in music):—ćhand-ćor, s.m. One who steals (another's) verses, a plagiarist:—ćhand-sambandhīyā, adj. Versified, in verse:—ćhand-mātrā, s.f. The measure or feet of verse:—ćhand-mātrā-gintī, s.f. Scanning verse:—ćhand-mātrāginnā(-kī), To scan:—ćhando-jna, ćhando-ga, ćhandog, s.m. A reciter or singer in metre; a chanter of the Sāma Veda:—ćhando-nirūpaṇ, s.m. A treatise on prosody.