چاقو

چاقو

See also: حاقو‎ and خافو‎

Persian

Etymology

From earlier چاکو‎ (čâku) 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).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːquː/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːquː/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒːɢuː/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔqu/

Noun

Dari	چاقو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чоқу (čoqu)

چاقو • (čâqu) (plural چاقوها‎ (čâqu-hâ))

1. knife

   ‏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, 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)

Descendants

• → Middle Bengali: চাকু (cāku)
  • Bengali: চাকু (caku)
• → Burushaski: چوقو (čoqu)
• → Georgian: ჯაყვა (ǯaq̇va)
• → Gujarati: ચાકુ (cāku)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चाकू (cākū), चाक़ू (cāqū)

  Urdu: چاقُو‎ (cāqū)

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

  Devanagari: चाकू (cākū)

  Latin: chaku

• → Maithili: cākū

  Devanagari: चाकू

  Tirhuta: 𑒔𑒰𑒏𑒴

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

  Gurmukhi: ਚਾਕੂ (cākū)

  Shahmukhi: چاقُو‎ (cāqū)

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

  Arabic: چاقُو‎

  Devanagari: 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)‎ (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)‎ (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, page 384

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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 (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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.