Chagatai

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Etymology

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Derived from Karakhanid [script needed] (kiçüg), from Proto-Turkic *kičük, *kičüg (small, little).

Adjective

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کچیک (kičik)

  1. little, small

Descendants

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  • Uyghur: كىچىك (kichik)
  • Uzbek: kichik

References

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  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “کچیک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources[7], Michigan Publishing, page 234

Mazanderani

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *kaw-ča-ka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kaw- ~ *ku- (young, small). Cognate with Mazanderani پچوک (pečok, small),[1] Middle Persian [script needed] (kwc /⁠kūč⁠/, small), [script needed] (kwk' /⁠kūk⁠/, small, short), Persian کودک (kudak, child), کوتاه (kutâh, short);[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] see کوچک (kučak).

Adjective

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کچیک (kıĉik)

  1. small
    Synonym: خورد (xurd)

References

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  1. ^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی)[1], Amol, page 18
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1931) “To the Žāmāsp-Nāmak II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies[2], volume 6, number 3, page 599 of 581–600
  3. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1933) “Iranian Studies II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies[3], volume 7, number 1, page 69 of 69–86
  4. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
  5. ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16)‎[4], Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
  6. ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary[5], Hamburg: Buske, column 594
  7. ^ Filippone, Ela (2010) The Fingers and their Names in the Iranian Languages (Onomasiological Studies on Body-Part Terms; I)‎[6], Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 149–151
  8. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258