çav

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cav"

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Also dialectal çehv, from an earlier *čahm, from Proto-Iranian *čášma (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma (“eye”). Cognate to Persian چشم (češm), Baluchi چم (čam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃˤɑːv/

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• Hyphenation: çav
• Rhymes: -ɑːv

Noun

çav m (Arabic spelling چاڤ)

1. eye

Derived terms

• çavbirçî
• çavî
• bêçav
• çavtêr
• çavkirî
• çavzîq
• çavnebar
• çavkanî
• çavnas
• çavbel
• çavbelek
• çavzer
• çavteng
• çavşil
• çavşîn
• çavşînk
• çavgirtin
• çavsor

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 100