# هدف
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

هَدَفَ • (hadafa) I (non-past يَهْدُفُ (yahdufu), verbal noun هَدْف (hadf))
* to approach, to draw near, to be near
* to aim, to aim at

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

هَدَّفَ • (haddafa) II (non-past يُهَدِّفُ (yuhaddifu), verbal noun تَهْدِيف (tahdīf))
* (intransitive, sports, soccer) to score a goal

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha.daf/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

هَدَف • (hadaf) m (plural أَهْدَاف (ʔahdāf))
* target, object, aim, end
    أَخْطَأَ ٱلْهَدَفَ ― ʔaḵṭaʔa l-hadafa ― to miss the mark
* objective, purpose, design, intention
    ذُو هَدَفٍ ― ḏū hadafin ― meaningful
* goal
* (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.

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

هَدْف • (hadf) m
* verbal noun of هَدَفَ (hadafa) (form I)

##### Declension
### References

* 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

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* հէտէֆ (hedef) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

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

### Noun

هدف • (hedef) (plural اهداف (ehdaf))
* target, a butt or mark to shoot at
    Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غرض (ğaraz), نشان (nişan), نشانكاه (nişangâh)
* aim, goal, purpose, intention
    Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غایه (gaye), مقصد (maksad), نیت (niyet)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: hedef

### Further reading

* 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

## Pashto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (non-native) IPA: /hadəf/
* IPA: /adəp/
* IPA: /hədəp/
* IPA: /hədəw/

### Noun

هدف • (hëdëf) m
* (rare, obsolete) goal

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَدَف (hadaf).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ha.ˈðaf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.d̪ǽf]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.d̪ǽf]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.d̪ǽf]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.d̪ǽf]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hæ.d̪ǽf]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hä.d̪ǽf]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

هدف • (hadaf) (plural اهداف (ahdâf))
* target
** early 11th century, Asjadī, Poetic fragment attributed to Asjadī:جان مرا غمت هدف حادثات کرد تا عشق سوی من نظر التفات کردjān-i ma-rā ğam-at hadaf-i hādisāt kard tā išq sōy-i man nazar-i iltifāt kardLove-grief for you has made my soul the target of calamities, Until love casts a look of affection towards my side.(Classical Persian transliteration)
* objective, goal

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic هَدَفَ (hadafa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha.daf/, [ˈha.daf]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

هدف • (hadaf) I (present بهدف (bihdif))
* to aim, to aspire