کوچک

Persian
Dari کوچک
Iranian Persian
Tajik кӯчак (küčak)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kwck' /kūčak/, “small”), from Proto-Iranian *kaw-ča-ka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kaw- ~ *ku- (“young, small”). Cognate with Middle Persian [script needed] (kwc /kūč/, “small”), [script needed] (kwk' /kūk/, “small, short”), Persian کودک‎ (kudak, “child”), کوتاه‎ (kutâh, “short”).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /kuˈt͡ʃak/

Adjective

کوچک • (kučak), comparative کوچک‌تَر‎ (kučak-tar), superlative کوچک‌تَرین‎ (kučak-tarin)

  1. small
  2. young
    ‏برادر من کوچک‌تر و خواهرم بزرگ‌تر است.‎‎
    berâdar-e man kučak-tar va xâharam bozorg-tar ast.
    My brother is younger and my sister is older.

Inflection
    Predicative forms of کوچک (kuček)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)		 کوچکم‎
(kučekam)		 کوچکیم‎
(kučekim)
2nd person
(“you are”)		 کوچکی‎
(kučeki)		 کوچکید‎
(kučekid)
کوچکین‎ △
(kučekin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)		 کوچک است‎
(kuček ast)
کوچکه‎ △
(kučeke)		 کوچکند‎
(kučekand)
کوچکن‎ △
(kučekan)
△ Colloquial.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Descendants
  • → Middle Armenian: Քուչակ (Kʿučʿak)

References
  1. Bailey, H. W. (1931), “To the Žāmāsp-Nāmak II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎, volume 6, issue 3, page 599 of 581–600
  2. Bailey, H. W. (1933), “Iranian Studies II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎, volume 7, issue 1, page 69 of 69–86
  3. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
  4. Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16)‎, Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
  5. Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987), “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary, Hamburg: Buske, column 594
  6. Filippone, Ela (2010) The Fingers and their Names in the Iranian Languages (Onomasiological Studies on Body-Part Terms; I)‎, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 149–151
  7. Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258
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