چی

See also: چي, جي, خی, جئ, حي, and جٍي

Central Kurdish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronoun
Northern Kurdish çi

چی (çi)

  1. (interrogative) what, which

Usage notes
  • As a determiner, must be followed with a noun in the indefinite.

Derived terms

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”).

Alternative forms
  • چه (če) (formal literary standard)

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰiː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰiː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰi]

Readings
Classical reading? čī
Dari reading? čī
Iranian reading? či
Tajik reading? či

Pronoun
Dari چه, چی
Iranian Persian چی, چه
Tajik чи

چی • (či)

  1. (interrogative, colloquial, in formal prose dated or Dari) what?
    راجع به هر چی فکر کرده بودم، راجع به مردن فکر نکرده بودم.
    râje' be har či fekr karde budam, râje' be mordan fekr nakarde budam.
    Whatever I had thought about, I hadn't thought about dying.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Azerbaijani -çi or Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci), from Proto-Turkic *-či.

Suffix

ـچی • (-či)

  1. -er; -eer
Derived terms
Persian terms suffixed with چی
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