چاقو

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See also: حاقو and خافو

Persian

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Etymology

From earlier چاکو (čākū) from Middle Persian (ckwc /⁠čakuč⁠/, “hammer”), from Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬐𐬎𐬱 (cakuš, “battle-axe”), from Proto-Indo-European *keku- (“cudgel, hammer shaped stick”). Related to Ottoman Turkish چاقی (çakı).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? čāqū
Dari reading? čāqū
Iranian reading? čâğu
Tajik reading? čoqu

Noun

Dari چاقو
Iranian Persian
Tajik чоқу

چاقو • (čâqu) (plural چاقوها (čâqu-hâ))

  1. knife
    این چاقو تیز است. (more literary)
    in čâqu tiz ast.
    این چاقو تیزه. (more colloquial)
    in čâqu tiz-e.
    this knife is sharp.
    • 2021, “شروع محاکمه مرد افغان در آلمان به اتهام قتل خانم‌اش در یک بس”, in dw.com‎, Deutsche Welle:
      این خانم به دلیل ضربات چاقو به قلب‌اش جان داد.
      in xânom be dalil-e zarabât-e čâqu be qalb-eš jân dâd.
      this lady passed away due to knife stabbings to the heart.

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 219

Further reading

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, pages 303–304
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎ (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, page 384

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چاقو (čāqū).

Pronunciation

Noun

چاقُو • (cāqū) m (Hindi spelling चाक़ू)

  1. knife

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • “چاقو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “چاقر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 418
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چاقو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 247
  • “چاقو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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