چیز

See also: جير, خير, خیز, خیر, جيز, and خ ي ر

Persian

Alternative forms

• چی (či)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiz]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiz]

Readings
Classical reading?	čīz
Dari reading?	čīz
Iranian reading?	čiz
Tajik reading?	čiz

Noun

Dari	چیز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чиз

چیز • (čiz) (plural چیزها (čiz-hâ))

1. thing
2. matter
3. object

Related terms

• چیزی (čizi)

Descendants

• → Bengali: চিজ (cij)
• → Gujarati: ચીજ (cīj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चीज़ (cīz)

  Urdu: چِیز (cīz)

• → Marathi: चीज (cīj)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz)

  Shahmukhi script: چِیز (cīz)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چیز (čīz, “object, thing, stuff”). Compare Punjabi ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz) / چِیز (cīz), Gujarati ચીજ (cīj), Marathi चीज (cīj), Bengali চিজ (cij).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːz/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

چِیز • (cīz) f (Hindi spelling चीज़)

1. thing
2. object
3. item
4. precious object

Declension

Declension of چیز
	singular	plural
direct	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزیں (cīzẽ)
oblique	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزوں (cīzõ)
vocative	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزو (cīzo)

References

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چيز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.