گاه

• گه‎ (gah)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gʾs), 𐫃𐫀𐫍‎ (gʾh /gāh/, “place, throne, bed; time”), compare Northern Kurdish -geh, Lurish گێ‎ (gı, “shift, time”) and Old Armenian գահ (gah), which is an Iranian borrowing.

گاه • (gâh)

1. time

   Synonyms: وقت‎ (vaqt), زمان‎ (zamân)

2. place

   Synonyms: جا‎ (jâ), مکان‎ (makân)

3. (rare) throne

   Synonym: تخت‎ (taxt)

• گاهی‎ (gâhi)
• گهگاه‎ (gahgâh)
• گهگدار‎ (gahgodâr)

• → Northern Kurdish: geh

ـگاه • (-gâh)

1. A suffix forming words of location.

• درگاه‎ (dargâh)

→ Urdu: گاہ‎ (gāh)

Inherited from Middle Persian gʾs (gāh, “Gatha; hymn, song”), from Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁‎ (gāθā, “Gatha; song”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gaHtʰás (“song”) from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH-tHó-s, from the root Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH- (“to sing, cry”).

گاه • (gâh)

1. hymn, song
2. Gatha, the most archaic segment of the Avesta, composed by Zoroaster himself

• سه‌گاه‎ (se-gâh)
• دستگاه‎ (dast-gâh, “dastgah”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “gāh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 34