saye

See also: sayə, Saye, and šáyəʔ

English

Verb

saye (third-person singular simple present sayes, present participle sayeing, simple past and past participle saide)

1. 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?

Anagrams

• ayes, yeas, Ayes, Easy, Seay, yaes, easy, eyas

Hausa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sà.jéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɛ̀.jéː]

Noun

sàyē m (plural sàyē-sàyē, possessed form sàyen)

1. A purchase; buying
2. verbal noun of saya

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sàː.jéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sàː.jéː]

Noun

sā̀yē m (possessed form sā̀yen)

1. Speaking in a way such as to hide the meaning from a listener.

Middle English

Verb

saye

1. alternative form of assayen

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑀬𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• सये (Devanagari script)
• সযে (Bengali script)
• සයෙ (Sinhalese script)
• သယေ (Burmese script)
• สเย or สะเย (Thai script)
• ᩈᨿᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ສເຍ or ສະເຍ or ສະເຢ (Lao script)
• សយេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄠𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

saye

1. third-person singular optative active of seti (“to sleep”)

Turkish

Alternative forms

• sâye

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian sʾdk'

Persian سایه (sâye)

Ottoman Turkish سایه (saye)

Turkish saye

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سایه (saye), from Persian سایه (sâye, “shadow, shade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːˈje/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ye

Noun

saye (definite accusative sayeyi, plural sayeler)

1. (archaic) shadow; shade

   Synonym: gölge

2. (archaic, figuratively) protection
3. (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.

   sometimes ironic

Derived terms

• saye ocağı
• saye salmak
• sayede
• sayesinde

Related terms

• sayeban
• sayebar
• sayedar
• sayvan

See also

• yüz

References

• 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

• “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

Zazaki

Noun

saye

1. apple