هدف

From the root ه د ف‎ (h-d-f).

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

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, page 1198–1199

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

هدف • (hedef) (plural اهداف‎ (ahdaf))

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
• 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

From Arabic هَدَف‎ (hadaf).

هدف • (hadaf) (plural اهداف‎)

1. target
2. objective
3. goal

From Arabic هَدَفَ‎ (hadafa).

• IPA^(key): /ha.daf/, [ˈha.daf]

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

1. to aim, to aspire