چی
(Redirected from ـچی)
Central Kurdish edit
Alternative forms edit
- چ (çi)
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.
Pronoun edit
Northern Kurdish | çi |
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چی (çi)
Usage notes edit
- As a determiner, must be followed with a noun in the indefinite.
Derived terms edit
- بۆ چی (bo çî)
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”).
Alternative forms edit
- چه (če) (formal literary standard)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [t͡ʃiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰiː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰi]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | čī |
Dari reading? | čī |
Iranian reading? | či |
Tajik reading? | či |
Pronoun edit
Dari | چه, چی |
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Iranian Persian | چی, چه |
Tajik | чи |
چی • (či)
- (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
- چی بودیم، چی شدیم (či budim, či šodim)
- هر چیز (“har čiz”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Azerbaijani -çi or Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci), from Proto-Turkic *-či.
Suffix edit
ـچی • (-či)