چی

(Redirected from ـچی)
See also: چي, جي, خی, جئ, حي, and جٍي

Central Kurdish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronoun edit

Northern Kurdish çi

چی (çi)

  1. (interrogative) what, which

Usage notes edit

  • As a determiner, must be followed with a noun in the indefinite.

Derived terms edit

Persian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], what, which).

Alternative forms edit

  • چه (če) (formal literary standard)

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? čī
Dari reading? čī
Iranian reading? či
Tajik reading? či

Pronoun edit

Dari چه, چی
Iranian Persian چی, چه
Tajik чи

چی (či)

  1. (interrogative, colloquial, in formal prose dated or Dari) what?
    راجع به هر چی فکر کرده بودم، راجع به مردن فکر نکرده بودم.
    râje' be har či fekr karde budam, râje' be mordan fekr nakarde budam.
    Whatever I had thought about, I hadn't thought about dying.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Azerbaijani -çi or Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci), from Proto-Turkic *-či.

Suffix edit

ـچی (-či)

  1. -er; -eer
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