وعده

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَعْدَة (waʕda, “promise, vow”).

Noun

وعده • (vaʾde)

1. due date, the date of payment in financial arrangements
2. time limit, a time by which something must be finished

Derived terms

Descendants

• Turkish: vade
• → Albanian: váde
• → Armenian: վատե (vate)
• → Aromanian: váde
• → Bulgarian: ваде́ (vadé)
• → Romanian: vadeá
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ва́да

  Latin script: váda

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vade”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5078
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “va'de”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1360
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وعده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1312
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Terminus”, 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 1664
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وعده”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5390
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vade”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وعده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2142

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَعْدَة (waʕda).

Pronunciation

Noun

وعده • (va'de) (plural وعده‌ها (va'de-hâ))

1. promise

   Synonym: قول (qowl)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 10:

     زانک شاکر را زیادت وعده است / آنچنانک قرب مزد سجده است

     z-ân ke šâker-râ ziyâdat va'de ast / ânčonân ke qorb mozd-e sajde ast

     For to him that gives thanks increase is promised, just as nighness is the reward for prostration .

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