چاه

چاه

Persian

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