çav

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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

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃˤɑːv/
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  • Hyphenation: çav
  • Rhymes: -ɑːv

Noun

çav m (Arabic spelling چاڤ)

  1. 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
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