غایه

See also: غاية

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَايَة (ḡāya, “end, purpose, goal”).

Noun

غایه • (gaye)

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

   Synonyms: آماج (amaç), مقصد (maksad), نیت (niyet), هدف (hedef)

Descendants

• Turkish: gaye

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 3375
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gaye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük