چاقو

See also: حاقو and خافو

Persian

Alternative forms

• چاکو (čâku), چقو (čaqu), چیقو (čiqu)

Etymology

From earlier چاکو (čākū) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ckwc /⁠čakuč⁠/, “hammer”), from Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬐𐬎𐬱 (cakuš, “battle-axe”), from Proto-Indo-European *keku- (“cudgel, hammer shaped stick”). Related to Ottoman Turkish چاقی (çakı). Doublet of چکش (čakoš)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaː.ˈquː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɔː.qu]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɒː.ʁuː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɔ.qu]

Readings
Classical reading?	čāqū
Dari reading?	čāqū
Iranian reading?	čâġu
Tajik reading?	čoqu

Noun

Dari	چاقو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чоқу

چاقو • (čāqū / čâġu) (plural چاقوها (čāqū-hā / čâġu-hâ), Tajik spelling чоқу)

1. knife

   Synonyms: کارد (kârd), پچق (pečaq)

   این چاقو تیز است. (more literary)

   in čâqu tiz ast.

   این چاقو تیزه. (more colloquial)

   in čâqu tiz-e.

   this knife is sharp.

   • 2021, “شروع محاکمه مرد افغان در آلمان به اتهام قتل خانم‌اش در یک بس”, in dw.com‎^[1], Deutsche Welle:

     این خانم به دلیل ضربات چاقو به قلب‌اش جان داد.

     in xânom be dalil-e zarabât-e čâqu be qalb-eš jân dâd.

     this lady passed away due to knife stabbings to the heart.

Related terms

• چاقوکش (čâqukeš)
• چاک (čâk)

Descendants

• → Middle Bengali: চাকু (caku)
  • Bengali: চাকু (caku)
• → Burushaski: چوقو (čoqu)
• → Georgian:

  → Georgian: ჯაყვა (ǯaq̇va)

  → Georgian: ჩაქუჩი (čakuči)

• → Gujarati: ચાકુ (cāku)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चाकू (cākū), चाक़ू (cāqū)

  Urdu: چاقُو (cāqū)

• → Ishkashimi: چوقو (čoqu)
• → Kannada: ಚಾಕು (cāku)
• → Konkani:

  Devanagari script: चाकू (cākū)

  Latin script: chaku

• → Maithili: cākū

  Devanagari script: चाकू

  Tirhuta script: 𑒔𑒰𑒏𑒴

• → Marathi: चाकू (cākū)
• → Marwari: चकू (cakū), चक्कू (cakkū), चाकू (cākū)
• → Munji: [script needed] (čoqūwa)
• → Nepali: चक्कु (cakku)
• → Odia: ଚାକୁ (cāku)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਕੂ (cākū)

  Shahmukhi script: چاقُو (cāqū)

• → Marwari: चक्कू (cakkū)
• → Sarikoli: čōqы, čōqů
• → Semnani: čāqu
• → Shughni: čōqū, čōqūn
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: چاقُو (cāqū)

  Devanagari script: चाकू

• → Telugu: చాకు (cāku)
• → Wakhi: čoqыw, čoqu
• → Yazghulami: čapqu, čapqů

Further reading

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[2] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, pages 303–304
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[3] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, page 384

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چاقو (čāqū).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.quː/

Noun

چاقُو • (cāqū) m (Hindi spelling चाक़ू)

1. knife

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “چاقو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “چاقر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 418
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چاقو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 247
• “چاقو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.