# مقصد
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

Noun of place from the root ق ص د (q ṣ d).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maq.sˤid/

#### Noun

مَقْصِد • (maqṣid) m (plural مَقَاصِد (maqāṣid))
* direction, trend, drift
    مَقْصِدِي مَكَّةُ ― maqṣidī makkatu ― I'm heading towards Mecca.
* purpose, goal, aim, destination

##### Declension
#### Noun

مَقْصَد • (maqṣad) m
* verbal noun of قَصَدَ (qaṣada) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maq.sˤad/

#### Descendants

* → Persian: مَقصَد (maqsad)
** → Azerbaijani: məqsəd
** → Bashkir: маҡсат (maqsat)
** → Bengali: মকসদ (môksôd)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मक़सद (maqsad)
    Urdu: مَقْصَد (maqsad)
** → Kazakh: мақсат (maqsat)
** → Kyrgyz: максат (maksat)
** → Ottoman Turkish: مقصد
    Turkish: maksat
    Crimean Tatar: maqsat
** → Uzbek: maqsad
** → Uyghur: مەقسەت (meqset)

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɡ.sˤad/

### Noun

مَقْصَد • (magṣad) m (plural مَقَاصِد (magāṣid))
* purpose, goal, aim

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْصِد (maqṣid, “purpose, goal, aim”).

### Noun

مقصد • (maksad) (plural مقاصد (makasid))
* aim, goal, purpose, intention, the object of one's endeavor
    Synonyms: آماج (amaç), غایه (gaye), نیت (niyet), هدف (hedef)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: maksat
* Crimean Tatar: maqsat

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maksat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3030
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “maksad”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 687
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقصد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1209
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intentum”, 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 843
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مقصد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4842
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maksat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقصد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1947

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maq.ˈsað]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäq.sǽd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäq.sǽd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäq.sǽd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäq.sǽd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæʁ.sǽd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäq.sǽd̪]
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### Noun

مَقصَد • (maqsad)
* destination
* goal, aim

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: məqsəd
* → Bashkir: маҡсат (maqsat)
* → Bengali: মকসদ (môksôd)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मक़सद (maqsad)
    Urdu: مَقْصَد (maqsad)
* → Kazakh: мақсат (maqsat)
* → Kyrgyz: максат (maksat)
* → Ottoman Turkish: مقصد
    Turkish: maksat
    Crimean Tatar: maqsat
* → Uzbek: maqsad
* → Uyghur: مەقسەت (meqset)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَقْصَد (maqsad), borrowed from Arabic مَقْصَد (maqṣad).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /məq.səd̪/
* Rhymes: -əd̪
* Hyphenation: مَق‧صَد

### Noun

مَقْصَد • (maqsad) m (formal plural مَقاصِد (maqāsid), Hindi spelling मक़सद)
* purpose (ie. intention; goal; aim)
    Synonyms: اِرادَہ (irāda), مَطْلَب (matlab)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “مقصد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “مقصد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مقصد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.