saye

saye (third-person singular simple present sayes, present participle sayeing, simple past and past participle saide)

1. Obsolete spelling of say.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 59, column 2:

     It is my Lady, O it is my Loue, O that ſhe knew ſhe were,
     She ſpeakes, yet ſhe ſayes nothing, what of that?

• ayes, yeas, Ayes, Easy, Seay, yaes, easy, eyas

• IPA^(key): /sà.jéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

sàyē m (plural sàyē-sàyē, possessed form sàyen)

1. A purchase; buying
2. verbal noun of saya

• IPA^(key): /sàː.jéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

sā̀yē m (possessed form sā̀yen)

1. Speaking in a way such as to hide the meaning from a listener.

saye

1. Alternative form of assayen

saye

1. third-person singular optative active of seti (“to sleep”)

• sâye

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سایه (saye), from Persian سایه (sâye, “shadow, shade”).

• IPA^(key): /saːˈje/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ye

saye (definite accusative sayeyi, plural sayeler)

1. (archaic) shadow; shade

   Synonym: gölge

2. (archaic, figuratively) protection
3. (in possessive with locative) (with or without possessive pronoun) Thanks to, credit goes to ... for this.

   benim sayemde ― thanks to me

   sayemde ― well, thanks to me

   onların sayesinde ― thanks to them

   sayelerinde (rare) ― thanks to them

   Bizim sayemizde adam oldun!

   You became a somebody thanks to us!

   Sayende kapıda kaldık.

   Thanks to you, we got locked out of the house.

   sometimes ironic

• yüz

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1033
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 989

• “saye”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “saye”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4018

saye

1. apple