Gadāʼī (ɡadaːˈʔiː), or Gadā (Chagatay: كدا, [ɡadaː]), was a 15th-century poet of Central Asia who wrote in the Chaghatay Turkic language.
[1]: p.2 However, based on other evidence, Ergash Rustamov concluded in the 1960s that Gadāʼī must have been born no later than 1360 and later served at the court of Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza at over 90 years of age.
[1]: p.1 Gadāʼī wrote a divan, or collection of poems, in what would now be considered the pre-classical Chaghatay literary language.
Rustamov highlights the fact that Gadāʼī was not a Sufi poet, and incorporated aspects of the local Turkic literary traditions into his work.
[1]: p.5 János Eckmann published a translation of some of Gadāʼī's works in 1960, which formed the basis of Rustamov's work,[1]: p.2 and in 1971 published a complete transcription of Gadāʼī's divan, with facsimiles of all the folios, a glossary, and a brief introduction.