çiya

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ckʾt' /⁠čagād⁠/, “peak, summit”), Persian چکاد (čakâd, “top of the head; top of the forehead”), Sogdian [script needed] (ckʾʾt /⁠čakāt⁠/, “peak, forehead”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪˈjɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

çiya m

1. mountain

References

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