Verb

saye (third-person singular simple present sayes, present participle sayeing, simple past and past participle saide)Category:English lemmas#SAYECategory:English verbs#SAYECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SAYECategory:Pages with entries#SAYECategory:Pages with 6 entries#SAYE

1. Obsolete spelling of sayCategory:English obsolete forms#SAYE.
   • 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?

     Category:English terms with quotations#SAYE

Anagrams

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

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Verb

sayeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#SAYECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SAYECategory:Pages with entries#SAYECategory:Pages with 6 entries#SAYE

1. alternative form of assayen

Alternative forms

Verb

sayeCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#SAYECategory:Pali verb forms#SAYECategory:Pali verb forms in Latin script#SAYECategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#SAYECategory:Pages with entries#SAYECategory:Pages with 6 entries#SAYE

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

Alternative forms

• sâye

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish#SAYECategory:Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish#SAYE سایه (saye), from PersianCategory:Turkish terms derived from Persian#SAYE سایه (sâye, “shadow, shade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːˈje/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#SAYE
• Hyphenation: sa‧ye

Noun

saye (definite accusative sayeyi, plural sayeler)Category:Turkish lemmas#SAYECategory:Turkish nouns#SAYECategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#SAYECategory:Pages with entries#SAYECategory:Pages with 6 entries#SAYE

1. (archaicCategory:Turkish terms with archaic senses#SAYE) shadow; shade

   Synonym: gölge

2. (archaicCategory:Turkish terms with archaic senses#SAYE, figuratively) protection
3. (in possessive with locative) (with or without possessive pronoun) Thanks to, credit goes to ... for this.

   benim sayemde ― thanks to meCategory:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

   sayemde ― well, thanks to meCategory:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

   onların sayesinde ― thanks to themCategory:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

   sayelerinde (rare) ― thanks to themCategory:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

   Bizim sayemizde adam oldun!

   You became a somebody thanks to us!

   Category:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

   Sayende kapıda kaldık.

   Thanks to you, we got locked out of the house.

   sometimes ironic

   Category:Turkish terms with usage examples#SAYE

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, 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

Noun

sayeCategory:Zazaki lemmas#SAYECategory:Zazaki nouns#SAYECategory:Zazaki entries with incorrect language header#SAYECategory:Pages with entries#SAYECategory:Pages with 6 entries#SAYE

1. apple