Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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çav m (Arabic spelling چاڤ)

  1. eye

Derived terms

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References

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  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 100