کوچک

Persian


Iranian Persian	کوچک
Dari	کوچک
Tajik	кӯчак

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 Mazanderani پچوک (pečok, “small”),^[1] Middle Persian [script needed] (kwc /⁠kūč⁠/, “small”), [script needed] (kwk' /⁠kūk⁠/, “small, short”), Persian (kudak, “child”), (kutâh, “short”);^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] see (kudak) for more.

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰoː.t͡ʃʰǽk]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰoː.t͡ʃʰǽk]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰʊː.t͡ʃʰǽk]

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

small
Synonym: خرد (xord)
young
barâdar-e man kuček-tar o xâharam bozorg-tar ast.
My brother is younger and my sister is older.

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

^ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)]‎^[1], Amol, page 18
^ 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
^ 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
^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kūč(ak)”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 52
^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1977) Studies in the kinship terminology of the Indo-European languages (Acta Iranica; 16)‎^[4], Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 15
^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “kut- (3)”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary‎^[5], Hamburg: Buske, column 594
^ 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
^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 258