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Çîya

Montaña

Género: Niño
Origen: Naturaleza
Guía de pronunciación: CHEE-ya

La historia del nombre

Çîya — a word older than four millennia. The root is Proto-Iranian kaufa-, the same root behind Persian kūh. In the saying Kurd û çiya — ‘the Kurd and the mountain’ — the mountain is where a people kept itself, stored its history, and rose again.

Etimología

Raíz: çiya · Kurmancî

Çîya descends from Proto-Iranian kaufa- (mountain), with cognates in Persian kūh and Avestan kaofa-. Kurdish geography lives among mountains; the saying Kurd û çiya — ‘the Kurd and the mountain’ — is older than any printed source.

Modismos

Kurd û çiya ‘the Kurd and the mountain’ — a saying about the inseparability of the people and their geography

Familia del nombre

Sîpan · cognate — a specific Kurdish mountain

Paralelismos lingüísticos

Montague Latin — 'Berg'
Yama (山) Japanska — 'Berg'

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Actualizado: 2026-05-02