چیز

See also: جير, خير, خیز, خیر, جيز, and خ ي ر

Persian

Alternative forms

• چی (či)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *čiš-čid / *čiš-čit, from Proto-Iranian *čiš + a suffix *čit of unknown, possibly reduplicative, origin. The former component is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kíš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, *kʷos (“who, which, what”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiz]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiːz]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiz]

Readings
Classical reading?	čīz
Dari reading?	čīz
Iranian reading?	čiz
Tajik reading?	čiz

• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

Dari	چیز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чиз

چیز • (čiz) (plural چیزها (čiz-hâ))

1. thing
2. matter
3. object
4. (informal) A thing, something, thingamajig (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).

Related terms

• چیزی (čizi)

Descendants

• → Bengali: চিজ (cij)
• → Gujarati: ચીજ (cīj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चीज़ (cīz)

  Urdu: چِیز (cīz)

• → Marathi: चीज (cīj)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz)

  Shahmukhi script: چِیز (cīz)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چیز (čīz, “object, thing, stuff”). Compare Punjabi ਚੀਜ਼ (cīz) / چِیز (cīz), Gujarati ચીજ (cīj), Marathi चीज (cīj), Bengali চিজ (cij).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːz/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

چِیز • (cīz) f (Hindi spelling चीज़)

1. thing (ie. object; item)

Declension

Declension of چیز
	singular	plural
direct	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزیں (cīzẽ)
oblique	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزوں (cīzõ)
vocative	چِیز (cīz)	چِیزو (cīzo)

Further reading

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چيز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.