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کوچک

Persian edit

Dari کوچک
Iranian Persian
Tajik кӯчак

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (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 [script needed] (kwc /⁠kūč⁠/, “small”), [script needed] (kwk' /⁠kūk⁠/, “small, short”), Persian کودک (kudak, “child”), کوتاه (kutâh, “short”);[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] see کودک (kudak) for more.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? kōčak
Dari reading? kōčak
Iranian reading? kuček
Tajik reading? küčak

Adjective edit

کوچک • (kuček) (comparative کوچک‌تَر (kuček-tar), superlative کوچک‌تَرین (kuček-tarin))

  1. small
  2. 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 edit

    Predicative forms of کوچک (kuček)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”) 		کوچکم
(kučekam) 		کوچکیم
(kučekim)
2nd person
(“you are”) 		کوچکی
(kučeki) 		کوچکید
(kučekid)
کوچکین △
(kučekin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”) 		کوچک است
(kuček ast)
کوچکه △
(kučeke) 		کوچکند
(kučekand)
کوچکن △
(kučekan)
△ Colloquial.

Synonyms edit

Antonyms edit

  • (antonym(s) of “big”): بزرگ (bozorg)

Descendants edit

  • → Middle Armenian: Քուչակ (Kʻučʻak)

References edit

  1. ^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)]‎[1], Amol, page 18
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1931) “To the Žāmāsp-Nāmak II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎[2], volume 6, number 3, page 599 of 581–600
  3. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1933) “Iranian Studies II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎[3], volume 7, number 1, page 69 of 69–86
  4. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
  5. ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16)‎[4], Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
  6. ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary‎[5], Hamburg: Buske, column 594
  7. ^ Filippone, Ela (2010) The Fingers and their Names in the Iranian Languages (Onomasiological Studies on Body-Part Terms; I)‎[6], Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 149–151
  8. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258
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