هدف

هَدَفَ • (hadafa) I, non-past يَهْدُفُ‎ (yahdufu)

1. to approach, to draw near, to be near
2. to aim, to aim at

هَدَّفَ • (haddafa) II, non-past يُهَدِّفُ‎ (yuhaddifu)

1. (intransitive, sports, soccer) to score a goal

• IPA^(key): /ha.daf/

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هَدَف • (hadaf) m (plural أَهْدَاف (ʔahdāf))

1. target, object, aim, end

   أَخْطَأَ ٱلْهَدَفَ ― ʔaḵṭaʔa l-hadafa ― to miss the mark

2. objective, purpose, design, intention

   ذُو هَدَفٍ ― ḏū hadafin ― meaningful

3. goal
4. (sports) goal (“a point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal”)

   حَامِي هَدَفٍ ― ḥāmī hadafin ― a goalkeeper

   سُجِّلَ هَدَفٌ جَمِيلٌ. ― sujjila hadafun jamīlun. ― A nice goal was scored.

هَدْف • (hadf) m

1. verbal noun of هَدَفَ (hadafa) (form I)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “page–750”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “هدف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 376
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “هدف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 1198–1199

• հէտէֆ (hedef) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Arabic هَدَف (hadaf, “target, aim, goal”).

هدف • (hedef) (plural اهداف (ehdaf))

1. target, a butt or mark to shoot at

   Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غرض (ğaraz), نشان (nişan)

2. aim, goal, purpose, intention

   Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غایه (gaye), مقصد (maksad), نیت (niyet)

• Turkish: hedef

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hedef”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1924
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hedef”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 419
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هدف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1322b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scopus”, 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 1521
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هدف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5448
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hedef”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هدف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2160

From Persian هدف (hadaf), from Arabic هَدَف (hadaf).

• (non-native) IPA^(key): /hadəf/
• IPA^(key): /adəp/
• IPA^(key): /hədəp/
• IPA^(key): /hədəw/

هدف • (hëdëf) m

1. (rare, obsolete) goal

Borrowed from Arabic هَدَف (hadaf).

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هدف • (hadaf) (plural اهداف (ahdâf))

1. target
   • early 11th century, Asjadī, Poetic fragment attributed to Asjadī:

     جان مرا غمت هدف حادثات کرد
     تا عشق سوی من نظر التفات کرد

     jān-i ma-rā ğam-at hadaf-i hādisāt kard
     tā išq sōy-i man nazar-i iltifāt kard

     Love-grief for you has made my soul the target of calamities,
     Until love casts a look of affection towards my side.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. objective, goal

From Arabic هَدَفَ (hadafa).

• IPA^(key): /ha.daf/, [ˈha.daf]

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هدف • (hadaf) I (present بهدف (bihdif))

1. to aim, to aspire