چیز

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See also: جير, خير, خیز, خیر, جيز, and خ ي ر

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).[1][2]

    Pronunciation

     
     

    Readings
    Classical reading? čīz
    Dari reading? čīz
    Iranian reading? čiz
    Tajik reading? čiz

    Noun

    Dari چیز
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik чиз

    چیز • (čiz) (plural چیزها (čiz-hâ))

    1. thing
    2. matter
    3. object
    4. (informal) A thing, something, thingamajig (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).

    Descendants

    • → Bengali: চিজ (cij)
    • → Gujarati: ચીજ (cīj)
    • → Hindustani:
      Hindi: चीज़ (cīz)
      Urdu: چِیز (cīz)
    • → Marathi: चीज (cīj)
    • → Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz)
      Shahmukhi script: چِیز (cīz)

    References

    1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 203
    2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 267

    Urdu

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Classical Persian چیز (čīz, “object, thing, stuff”). Compare Punjabi ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz) / چِیز (cīz), Gujarati ચીજ (cīj), Marathi चीज (cīj), Bengali চিজ (cij).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    چِیز • (cīz) f (Hindi spelling चीज़)

    1. thing (ie. object; item)

    Declension

        Declension of چیز
    singular plural
    direct چِیز (cīz) چِیزیں (cīzẽ)
    oblique چِیز (cīz) چِیزوں (cīzõ)
    vocative چِیز (cīz) چِیزو (cīzo)

    Further reading

    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چيز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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