# چاو
## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *čášma (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čáćšma (“eye”).

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | çav |
چاو (çaw)
* eye

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čav (“fame, reputation”).

#### Noun

چاو • (çav) (definite accusative چاوی (çavı), plural چاولر (çavlar))
* noise, various types of sounds, usually unwanted, unpleasant, or annoying
    Synonyms: آواز (avaz), سس (ses), صوت (savt), كورلدی (gürüldü)
* reputation, fame, repute, name, what somebody or something is known for
    Synonyms: اوك (üñ), شان (şan), شهرت (şöhret)
* news, a piece of information about current events, disseminated by the media
    Synonym: خبر (haber)

##### Derived terms

* چاو ایتمك (çav etmek, “to divulgate”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çav

#### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ça:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 393

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چاو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 573
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çav3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 903
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چاو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 178a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 465
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rumor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1496
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چاو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1568

### Etymology 2

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#### Noun

چاو • (çav) (definite accusative چاوی (çavı), plural چاولر (çavlar))
* (anatomy) penis, the male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse and for urination
    Synonyms: ذكر (zeker), سیك (sik), كیر (kir)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çav

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çav4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 903
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 711

### Etymology 3

Possibly from Middle Chinese 鈔 (“paper money, banknote”).

#### Noun

چاو • (çav) (definite accusative چاوی (çavı), plural چاولر (çavlar))
* (historical) sort of paper money issued by the Yuan dynasty in China and the first paper currency in the Islamic world

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çav

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çav7”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 903
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 711

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 鈔／钞 (chāo).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃɑːw]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːw]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːw]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɑːw]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰäw]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɒːv]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰɔw]

### Noun

چاو • (čâv)
* (historical) A paper money used in medieval China and briefly introduced by the Mongols to Iran in 1294; the first paper currency in the Islamic world, it proved an economic failure.