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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Also dialectal çehv, from an earlier *čahm, from Proto-Iranian *čášma (“eye”), from
Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma (“eye”). Cognate to Persian چشم (češm), Baluchi چم (čam).
Pronunciation
Noun
çav m (Arabic spelling چاڤ)
- eye
Derived terms
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 100