مقصد

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place from the root ق ص د (q-ṣ-d).

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /maq.sˤid/

Noun

مَقْصِد • (maqṣid) m (plural مَقَاصِد (maqāṣid))

1. direction, trend, drift

   مَقْصِدِي مَكَّةُ ― maqṣidī makkatu ― I'm heading towards Mecca.

2. purpose, goal, aim, destination

Declension

Noun

مَقْصَد • (maqṣad) m

1. verbal noun of قَصَدَ (qaṣada) (form I)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /maq.sˤad/

Declension

Descendants

• → Persian: مَقصَد (maqsad)
  • → Azerbaijani: məqsəd
  • → Bashkir: маҡсат (maqsat)
  • → Bengali: মকসদ (môksôd)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: मक़सद (maqsad)

    Urdu: مَقْصَد (maqsad)

  • → Kazakh: мақсат (maqsat)
  • → Kyrgyz: максат (maksat)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: مقصد

    Turkish: maksat

    Crimean Tatar: maqsat

  • → Uzbek: maqsad
  • → Uyghur: مەقسەت (meqset)

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɡ.sˤad/

Noun

مَقْصَد • (magṣad) m (plural مَقَاصِد (magāṣid))

1. purpose, goal, aim

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْصِد (maqṣid, “purpose, goal, aim”).

Noun

مقصد • (maksad) (plural مقاصد (makasid))

1. aim, goal, purpose, intention, the object of one's endeavor

   Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غایه (gaye), نیت (niyet), هدف (hedef)

Descendants

• Turkish: maksat
• Crimean Tatar: maqsat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maksat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3030
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “maksad”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 687
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقصد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1209
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intentum”, 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 843
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مقصد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4842
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maksat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقصد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1947

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

Pronunciation

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Noun

مَقصَد • (maqsad)

1. destination
2. goal, aim

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَقْصَد (maqsad), from Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məq.səd̪/
• Rhymes: -əd̪
• Hyphenation: مَق‧صَد

Noun

مَقْصَد • (maqsad) m (formal plural مَقاصِد (maqāsid), Hindi spelling मक़सद)

1. purpose (ie. intention; goal; aim)

   Synonyms: اِرادَہ (irāda), مَطْلَب (matlab)

Declension

Further reading

• “مقصد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مقصد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مقصد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.