هیچ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

borrowed from Persian هیچ

Pronoun

هیچ • (hiç)

1. nothing
2. any

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هیچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran

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Persian

Dari	هیچ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳеч

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian 𐭠𐭩𐭰 (ēč, “not any”).

Adjective

هیچ • (hič)

1. tiny, insignificant, inconsiderable
2. no

   هیچ کس نمی‌دونست اون کجاست.

   Hič kas nemi-dunest un kojāst.

   No one knew where he was. (vernacular)

Adverb

1. never
2. ever

Noun

هیچ • (hič)

1. nil, naught

Pronoun

1. nothing

Derived terms

• هیچ‌چیز (hič-čiz)
• هیچ‌وقت (hič-vaqt)

Descendants

• Armenian: հեչ (hečʻ)
• Crimean Tatar: iç
• Turkish: hiç
• Uyghur: ھېچ (hëch)