çav

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cav"

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃˤɑːv/
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  • Hyphenation: çav
  • Rhymes: -ɑːv

Noun[edit]

çav m (Arabic spelling چاڤ)

  1. eye

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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
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