هیچ

See also: هيچ and ہیچ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian (hič), from Classical Persian (hēč).

Pronoun

هیچ • (hiç)

nothing
any

Derived terms

هیچ بر (hiç bir)

Descendants

Turkish: hiç
→ Albanian: hiç
→ Armenian: հիչ (hičʻ)
→ Aromanian: ici, hici
→ Bulgarian: хич (hič)
→ Laz: ჰიჩი (hiçi)
→ Macedonian: ич (ič)
→ Romanian: hici

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هیچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran

Persian


Iranian Persian	هیچ
Dari	هیچ
Tajik	ҳеч

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾyc /⁠ēč⁠/, “not any”).

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “The č is probably from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos (“who, which, what”). Is the hi a phonetic shift from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”)?”

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [heːt͡ʃ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [heːt͡ʃ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔeːt͡ʃ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔeːt͡ʃ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hiːt͡ʃ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [het͡ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	hēč
Dari reading^?	hēč
Iranian reading^?	hič
Tajik reading^?	heč

Rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ

Adjective

هیچ • (hič)

tiny, insignificant, inconsiderable
no
هیچ کس نمی‌دونست اون کجاست.
Hič kas nemi-dunest un kojāst.
No one knew where he was. (vernacular)

Adverb

هیچ • (hič)

never
ever

Noun

هیچ • (hič)

nil, naught

Pronoun

هیچ • (hič)

nothing

Derived terms

هیچ‌جا (hič-jâ)
هیچ‌وقت (hič-vaqt)
هیچ‌چیز (hič-čiz)
هیچ‌کدام (hič-kodâm)
هیچ‌کس (hič-kas)
هیچ‌گاه (hič-gâh)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: heç
→ Chagatai: هیچ
- Uyghur: ھېچ (hëch)
- Uzbek: hech
→ Crimean Tatar: iç
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: हेच (hec)

Urdu: ہیچ (hec)
→ Iraqi Arabic: هيچ
→ Kazakh: еш (eş)
→ Middle Armenian: հէչ (hēčʻ)
- Armenian: հեչ (hečʻ)
→ Ottoman Turkish: هیچ (hiç)
- Turkish: hiç
- → Albanian: hiç
- → Armenian: հիչ (hičʻ)
- → Aromanian: ici, hici
- → Bulgarian: хич (hič)
- → Laz: ჰიჩი (hiçi)
- → Macedonian: ич (ič)
- → Romanian: hici
→ Turkmen: hiç