çiya

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ckʾt' /⁠čagād⁠/, “peak, summit”), Persian چکاد (čakâd, “top of the head; top of the forehead”), Sogdian [script needed] (ckʾʾt /⁠čakāt⁠/, “peak, forehead”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪˈjɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

çiya m

  1. mountain

References
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çîya”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 115
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