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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic غَايَة (ḡāya, “end, purpose, goal”).
Noun
غایه • (gaye)
- aim, goal, purpose, intention, the object of one's endeavor
- Synonyms: آماج (amaç), مقصد (maksad), نیت (niyet), هدف (hedef)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gaye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1653
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 868
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Finis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 580
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غایه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3375
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gaye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük