کوچک

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Persian

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Dari کوچک
Iranian Persian
Tajik кӯчак

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwck' /⁠kūčak⁠/, small), from Proto-Iranian *kaw-ča-ka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kaw- ~ *ku- (young, small). Cognate with Mazanderani پچوک (pečok, small),[1] Middle Persian [script needed] (kwc /⁠kūč⁠/, small), [script needed] (kwk' /⁠kūk⁠/, small, short), Persian کودک (kudak, child), کوتاه (kutâh, short);[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] see کودک (kudak) for more.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? kōčak
Dari reading? kōčak
Iranian reading? kuček
Tajik reading? küčak

Adjective

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کوچک (kuček) (comparative کوچک‌تَر (kuček-tar), superlative کوچک‌تَرین (kuček-tarin))

  1. small
    Synonym: خرد (xord)
  2. young
    برادر من کوچک‌تر و خواهرم بزرگ‌تر است.
    barâdar-e man kuček-tar o xâharam bozorg-tar ast.
    My brother is younger and my sister is older.

Inflection

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    Predicative forms of کوچک (kuček)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
کوچکم
(kučekam)
کوچکیم
(kučekim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
کوچکی
(kučeki)
کوچکید
(kučekid)
کوچکین
(kučekin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
کوچک است
(kuček ast)
کوچکه
(kučeke)
کوچکند
(kučekand)
کوچکن
(kučekan)
Colloquial.

Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of big): بزرگ (bozorg)

Descendants

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  • Middle Armenian: Քուչակ (Kʻučʻak)

References

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  1. ^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)]‎[1], Amol, page 18
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1931) “To the Žāmāsp-Nāmak II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies[2], volume 6, number 3, page 599 of 581–600
  3. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1933) “Iranian Studies II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies[3], volume 7, number 1, page 69 of 69–86
  4. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
  5. ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16)‎[4], Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
  6. ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary[5], Hamburg: Buske, column 594
  7. ^ Filippone, Ela (2010) The Fingers and their Names in the Iranian Languages (Onomasiological Studies on Body-Part Terms; I)‎[6], Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 149–151
  8. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258