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Persian
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کوچک
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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кӯчак
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Etymology
From Middle Persian (kwck' /kūčak/, “small”), from Proto-Iranian *kaw-ča-ka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kaw- ~ *ku- (“young, small”). Cognate with Mazanderani پچوک (pečok, “small”),[1] Middle Persian (kwc /kūč/, “small”), (kwk' /kūk/, “small, short”), Persian کودک (kudak, “child”), کوتاه (kutâh, “short”);[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] see کودک (kudak) for more.
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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kōčak
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| Dari reading?
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kōčak
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| Iranian reading?
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kuček
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| Tajik reading?
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küčak
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Adjective
کوچک • (kuček) (comparative کوچک‌تَر (kuček-tar), superlative کوچک‌تَرین (kuček-tarin))
- small
- Synonym: خرد (xord)
- young
برادر من کوچک‌تر و خواهرم بزرگ‌تر است.- barâdar-e man kuček-tar o xâharam bozorg-tar ast.
- My brother is younger and my sister is older.
Inflection
| Predicative forms of کوچک (kuček)
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singular
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plural
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1st person
(“I am, we are”)
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کوچکم
(kučekam)
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کوچکیم
(kučekim)
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2nd person
(“you are”)
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کوچکی
(kučeki)
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کوچکید
(kučekid)
کوچکین △
(kučekin)
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3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
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کوچک است
(kuček ast)
کوچکه △
(kučeke)
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کوچکند
(kučekand)
کوچکن △
(kučekan)
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| △ Colloquial.
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Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “big”): بزرگ (bozorg)
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: Քուչակ (Kʻučʻak)
References
- ^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)], Amol, page 18
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1931) “To the Žāmāsp-Nāmak II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, volume 6, number 3, page 599 of 581–600
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1933) “Iranian Studies II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, volume 7, number 1, page 69 of 69–86
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
- ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16), Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
- ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary, Hamburg: Buske, column 594
- ^ Filippone, Ela (2010) The Fingers and their Names in the Iranian Languages (Onomasiological Studies on Body-Part Terms; I), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 149–151
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258