Citations:کاکو

Persian citations of کاکو

Miller, Corey, Livingston, Jace, Vinson, Mark, Triebwasser Prado, Thomas (2014) Persian Dialects: As Spoken in Iran‎^[1], University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language, page 97:

People from Shiraz are known for their use of the word /kaka/ کاکا which is an arcane term for big brother that has largely fallen out of use elsewhere in Iran (کاکا is still used in parts of Afghanistan to mean paternal uncle) (see the online version of the Dehkhoda dictionary). Because of the aforementioned /a/ > /o/ shift Shirazis often pronounce the word as /kako/