مَدًى

The utmost extent, term, limit, or reach, of a thing; synonym غَايَةٌ: (S, Msb, K:) an extent, a distance; a space, an interval; synonym مَسَافَةٌ. [meaning a space that is, or that is to be, traversed] and hence used in the sense before explained because extending to a غاية: (Z, in the Fáïk, quoted in the TA:) a goal. (The Lexicons passim.)