چاه

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Alternative forms

  • چه (ča, čah, čeh)

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

References

  • 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
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