گاه

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See also: ـگاه and کاه

Persian

Alternative forms

  • گه (gah) (metrical variant)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? gāh
Dari reading? gāh
Iranian reading? gâh
Tajik reading? goh

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (gʾs), 𐫃𐫀𐫍 (gʾh /⁠gāh⁠/, “place, throne, bed; time”), from Old Persian (gāθu-, “place; throne, chair”), from Proto-Iranian *gātu- / *gāθu-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian , from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”). Compare Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬙𐬎 (gātu, “place, seat, throne”) and Sanskrit गातु (gātú, “going; way; place”). Doublet of جاه (jâh), which passed through Arabic.

Noun

گاه • (gâh)

  1. a word for time:
    1. time (in general)
      Synonyms: وقت (vaqt), زمان (zamân)
      در آن گاه ― dar ân gâh ― at that time
    2. (Zoroastrianism) One of the five ritual divisions of a 24-hour day, each with a specific Zoroastrian prayer.
  2. A word for place:
    1. office, seat, position
    2. rank, status, esteem
    3. (archaic) throne
    4. (obsolete, except as a suffix) place (in general)
      Synonyms: جا (jâ), مکان (makân)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: gah
  • → Northern Kurdish: geh

Adverb

گاه • (gâh)

  1. Contraction of گاهی (gâhi, “sometimes”).

References

  • Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 269

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle Persian (gʾs /⁠gāh⁠/, “Gatha; hymn, song”), from Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “Gatha; song”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gaHtʰás (“song”) from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH-tHó-s, from the root Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH- (“to sing, cry”).

Noun

گاه • (gâh)

  1. (archaic) hymn, song
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Gatha, the most archaic segment of the Avesta, composed by Zoroaster himself
Derived terms

References

Sindhi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit .

Pronunciation

Noun

گاهُ • (gāhu) m (Devanagari गाहु)

  1. grass

References

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “گاهُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “گاهُه”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
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