# چاقو
## Persian
### Etymology

From earlier چاکو (čākū) 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: [t͡ʃɑː.quː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑː.quː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɔː.qu]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɒː.ʁuː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɔ.qu]

### Noun

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)
* چاک (čâk)

#### Descendants

* → Middle Bengali: চাকু (caku)
** Bengali: চাকু (caku)
* → Burushaski: چوقو (čoqu)
* → Georgian:
    → Georgian: ჯაყვა (ǯaq̇va)
    → Georgian: ჩაქუჩი (čakuči)
* → Gujarati: ચાકુ (cāku)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: चाकू (cākū), चाक़ू (cāqū)
    Urdu: چاقُو (cāqū)
* → Ishkashimi: چوقو (čoqu)
* → Kannada: ಚಾಕು (cāku)
* → Konkani:
    Devanagari script: चाकू (cākū)
    Latin script: chaku
* → 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)
* → Odia: ଚାକୁ (cāku)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਚਾਕੂ (cākū)
    Shahmukhi script: چاقُو (cāqū)
* → Marwari: चक्कू (cakkū)
* → Sarikoli: čōqы, čōqů
* → Semnani: čāqu
* → Shughni: čōqū, čōqūn
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: چاقُو
    Devanagari script: चाकू
* → Telugu: చాకు (cāku)
* → Wakhi: čoqыw, čoqu
* → Yazghulami: čapqu, čapqů

### References

* ↑ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 219

### 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: /t͡ʃɑː.quː/

### Noun

چاقُو • (cāqū) m (Hindi spelling चाक़ू)
* knife

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “چاقو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (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 ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.