saye
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saye (third-person singular simple present sayes, present participle sayeing, simple past and past participle saide)
- 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], 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?
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sàyē m (plural sàyē-sàyē, possessed form sàyen)
- A purchase; buying
- verbal noun of saya
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sā̀yē m (possessed form sā̀yen)
- Speaking in a way such as to hide the meaning from a listener.
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saye
- Alternative form of assayen
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saye
- third-person singular optative active of seti (“to sleep”)
Turkish edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سایه (saye), from Persian سایه (sâye, “shadow, shade”).
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Noun edit
saye (definite accusative sayeyi, plural sayeler)
- (archaic) shadow; shade
- Synonym: gölge
- (archaic, figuratively) protection
- (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.
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References edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], 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
Further reading edit
- “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
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