çîyayî

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From çiya (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːjɑːˈjiː/

Noun

çîyayî m or f (Arabic spelling چییایي)

1. mountain dweller, highlander, mountaineer

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çîyayî”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 115