چاقو
See also: حاقو and خافو
Persian
Etymology
From earlier چاکو (čâku) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ckwc /čakuč/, “hammer”), from Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬐𐬎𐬱 (cakuš, “battle-axe”), from Proto-Indo-European *keku- (“cudgel, hammer shaped stick”). Related to Ottoman Turkish چاقی (çakı).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑːquː/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑːquː/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɒːɢuː/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔqu/
Noun
| Dari | چاقو |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | чоқу (čoqu) |
چاقو • (čâqu) (plural چاقوها (čâqu-hâ))
- knife
- این چاقو تیز است. (more literary)
- in čâqu tiz ast.
- این چاقو تیزه. (more colloquial)
- in čâqu tiz-e.
- this knife is sharp.
- 2021, “شروع محاکمه مرد افغان در آلمان به اتهام قتل خانماش در یک بس”, in dw.com, Deutsche Welle:
- این خانم به دلیل ضربات چاقو به قلباش جان داد.
- in xânom be dalil-e zarabât-e čâqu be qalb-eš jân dâd.
- this lady passed away due to knife stabbings to the heart.
Related terms
- چاقوکش (čâqukeš)
Descendants
- → Middle Bengali: চাকু (caku)
- Bengali: চাকু (caku)
- → Burushaski: چوقو (čoqu)
- → Georgian:
- → Gujarati: ચાકુ (cāku)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ishkashimi: چوقو (čoqu)
- → Kannada: ಚಾಕು (cāku)
- → Konkani:
- → Maithili: cākū
- Devanagari script: चाकू
- Tirhuta script: 𑒔𑒰𑒏𑒴
- → Marathi: चाकू (cākū)
- → Marwari: चकू (cakū), चक्कू (cakkū), चाकू (cākū)
- → Munji: [script needed] (čoqūwa)
- → Nepali: चक्कु (cakku)
- → Oriya: ଚାକୁ (caku)
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਕੂ (cākū)
- Shahmukhi script: چاقُو (cāqū)
- → Rajasthani: चक्कू (cakkū)
- → Sarikoli: čōqы, čōqů
- → Semnani: čāqu
- → Shughni: čōqū, čōqūn
- → Sindhi:
- → Telugu: చాకు (cāku)
- → Wakhi: čoqыw, čoqu
- → Yazghulami: čapqu, čapqů
Further reading
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, pages 303–304
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21) (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 174, page 384
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian چاقو (čāqū).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.quː/
- (Deccani) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.xuː/
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “چاقو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “چاقر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 418
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چاقو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 247
- “چاقو”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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