چی

See also: چي‎, جي‎, خی‎, جئ‎, حي‎, and جٍي‎

Central Kurdish

Alternative forms

چ‎ (çi)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronoun

Northern Kurdish	çi

چی (çi)

(interrogative) what, which

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

بۆ چی‎ (bo çî)

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

چه‎ (če) (formal literary standard)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː~t͡ʃi/

(Dari): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː~t͡ʃɪ/

(Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː~t͡ʃe/
(Tajik): IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː~t͡ʃi/

Pronoun

Iranian Persian	چی, چه‎
Dari	چی, چه‎
Tajik	чӣ, чи (čī, či)

چی • (či)

(interrogative, colloquial, in formal prose dated or Dari) what?
‏‎‎
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

چی بودیم، چی شدیم‎ (či budim, či šodim)
هر چیز‎ (“har čiz”)

Etymology 2

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

Suffix

ـچی • (-či)

-er; -eer

Derived terms

Persian terms suffixed with چی

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