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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Compare Middle Persian (ckʾt' /čagād/, “peak, summit”), Persian چکاد (čakâd, “top of the head; top of the forehead”), Sogdian (ckʾʾt /čakāt/, “peak, forehead”)
Pronunciation
Noun
çiya m
- mountain
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çîya”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 115