цель

• цѣль (cělʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

• IPA^(key): [t͡sɛlʲ]

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Borrowed from Polish cel (“aim, goal”), in turn from Middle High German zil (whence German Ziel); compare Bulgarian цел (cel).

цель • (celʹ) f inan (genitive це́ли, nominative plural це́ли, genitive plural це́лей, relational adjective целево́й)

1. goal, target, aim, end, object

   не попада́ть/попа́сть в цель ― ne popadátʹ/popástʹ v celʹ ― to miss (one's aim)

2. purpose
3. destination (of traveller)

• → Yakut: сыал (sıal)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “цель”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “цель”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 365

цель • (celʹ)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of це́лить (célitʹ)