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