قصد

قَصَدَ • (qaṣada) I (non-past يَقْصِدُ (yaqṣidu), verbal noun قَصْد (qaṣd) or مَقْصَد (maqṣad))

1. to mean, to intend
2. to move towards
3. to aim at
4. to try to injure or kill
5. to fall upon
6. to rely upon
7. to dedicate
8. to break (something) in the middle
9. to be just
10. to keep the golden mean
11. to economize
12. to make poems

• → Swahili: -kusudi

قَصُدَ • (qaṣuda) I (non-past يَقْصُدُ (yaqṣudu), verbal noun قَصَادَة (qaṣāda))

1. to be fat

قَصْد • (qaṣd) m

1. verbal noun of قَصَدَ (qaṣada) (form I)
2. intention, objective, purpose, resolution, end, aim
3. purport
4. way, road

• → Azerbaijani: qəsd
• → Ottoman Turkish: قصد (kasıd)
  • > Turkish: kasıt (inherited)
  • → Crimean Tatar: qast
• → Persian: قَصد (qasd)
• → Swahili: kusudi
• → Uzbek: qasd

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قصد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic قَصَدَ (qaṣada).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.sˤad/

قَصَد • (gaṣad) I (non-past يِقْصُد (yigṣud))

1. to mean, to intend
2. to dedicate
3. to read a poem

From Arabic قَصْد (qaṣd).

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˤd/

قصد • (gaṣd) m

1. intention, objective, purpose, resolution, end, aim

Borrowed from Arabic قَصْد (qaṣd).

قَصد • (qasd) (plural قَصدها (qasd-hâ))

1. intention, desire, objective

   او قصد بدی نداشت ― u qasd-e badi na-dâšt. ― S/he didn't have bad intentions.

   • c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “Qaṣīda 35”, in دیوان فرخی سیستانی [Dīvān of Farrukhī]‎^[2]:

     خراب کردی و بیمرد خاندان بهیم
     مگر کنی پس از این قصد خانه قیصر

     xarāb kardī u bēmard xānadān-i bahīm
     magar kunī pas az īn qasd-i xāna-yi qaysar

     You have ruined and made desolate the court of Bhima;
     Perhaps after this, you shall aim for the house of Caesar.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2635:

     گفت پیغمبر که حق فرموده است
     قصد من از خلق احسان بوده است

     guft payġambar ke haqq farmūda ast
     qasd-i man az xalq ihsān būda ast

     The Prophet has declared that God said,
     "My purpose in creating was to do good."

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

   • 2021 April 6, “روزنامه آمریکایی: تعجب‌آور نیست که ایران درباره قصد آمریکا تردید دارد”, in Donya-e-Eqtesad‎^[3]:

     تعجب‌آور نیست که ایران درباره قصد آمریکا تردید دارد

     ta'ajjob-âvar nist ke irân darbâre-ye qasd-e âmrikâ tardid dârad

     It is not astonishing that Iran is hesitant about America's intentions

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قصد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic قَصَدَ (qaṣada).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʔa.sˤad/, [ˈʔɑ.sˤɑd]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ɡa.sˤad/, [ˈɡɑ.sˤɑd]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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قصد • (ʔaṣad) I (present بقصد (byuʔṣod))

1. to mean, to intend

From Arabic قَصْد (qaṣd).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /ʔasˤd/, [ʔɑsˤdˤ]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /ɡasˤd/, [ɡɑsˤdˤ]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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قصد • (ʔaṣd) m

1. meaning, intention

   شو قصدك ― šū ʔaṣdak? ― What do you mean?

   بدون قصد ― bidūn ʔaṣd ― unintentionally