çiya
Appearance
Northern Kurdish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]çiya m
References
[edit]- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “çîya”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 115