گاه

• گه‎ (gah) (metrical variant)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gʾs), 𐫃𐫀𐫍‎ (gʾh /⁠gāh⁠/, “place, throne, bed; time”), from Old Persian [script needed] (gāθu-, “place; throne, chair”), from Proto-Iranian *gātu- / *gāθu-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”). Compare Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬙𐬎‎ (gātu, “place, seat, throne”) and Sanskrit गातु (gātú, “going; way; place”). Doublet of جاه‎ (jâh), which passed through Arabic.

گاه • (gâh)

1. A word for time:
   1. time (in general)

      Synonyms: وقت‎ (vaqt), زمان‎ (zamân)

      ‏در آن گاه‎‎ ― dar ân gâh ― at that time

   2. (Zoroastrianism) One of the five ritual divisions of a 24-hour day, each with a specific Zoroastrian prayer.
2. A word for place:
   1. office, seat, position
   2. (archaic) throne
   3. (obsolete, except as a suffix) place (in general)

      Synonyms: جا‎ (jâ), مکان‎ (makân)

• → Azerbaijani: gah
• → Northern Kurdish: geh

ـگاه • (-gâh)

1. A suffix forming words of location.
2. A suffix forming words of time.

• → Urdu: گاہ‎ (gāh)

گاه • (gâh)

1. Contraction of گاهی‎ (gâhi, “sometimes”).

• Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 269

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gʾs /⁠gāh⁠/, “Gatha; hymn, song”), from Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁‎ (gāθā, “Gatha; song”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gaHtʰás (“song”) from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH-tHó-s, from the root Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eH- (“to sing, cry”).

گاه • (gâh)

1. (archaic) hymn, song
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Gatha, the most archaic segment of the Avesta, composed by Zoroaster himself

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “gāh”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 34