Definition of "Zend"
Zend
proper noun
Quotations
The dialect in which these writings are composed goes usually by the name of the Zend ; it is also styled the Avestan, and sometimes the Old Bactrian, from the country Bactria, the north-easternmost region of the great Iranian territory, which is supposed to have been its specific locality.
1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, Trübner, page 222