چاه

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Akin to Sogdian [script needed] (c’t /⁠čāt⁠/), Avestan 𐬗𐬁𐬝 (cāt̰), Khotanese [script needed] (cāta), Khwarezmian [script needed] (ct’), Baluchi چات (cát), etc.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čāh
Dari reading? čāh
Iranian reading? čâh
Tajik reading? čoh
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Noun

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Dari چاه
Iranian Persian
Tajik чоҳ

چاه (čâh) (plural چاه‌ها (čâh-hâ))

  1. well (a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids)

Descendants

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  • Ottoman Turkish: چاه (çah, well; shaft; pit; dungeon)

References

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Gharib, B. (1995) “c’t”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 124