"چی" meaning in Persian

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭬𐭤",
        "4": "",
        "5": "what, which",
        "sc": "Phli",
        "tr": "čē 􂀿ME􂁀"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "či",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "tr": "či"
      },
      "expansion": "چی • (či)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dari",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
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          "name": "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Persian pronouns",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "či budim, či šodim",
          "word": "چی بودیم، چی شدیم"
        },
        {
          "english": "har čiz",
          "word": "هر چیز"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Whatever I had thought about, I hadn't thought about dying.",
          "roman": "râje' be har či fekr karde budam, râje' be mordan fekr nakarde budam.",
          "text": "راجع به هر چی فکر کرده بودم، راجع به مردن فکر نکرده بودم.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what?"
      ],
      "id": "en-چی-fa-pron-LMmlmuFO",
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative, colloquial, in formal prose dated or Dari) what?"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in formal prose dated or Dari"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "če",
          "tags": [
            "formal",
            "literary",
            "standard"
          ],
          "word": "چه"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "interrogative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰi]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰi]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "چی"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "az",
        "3": "-çi"
      },
      "expansion": "Azerbaijani -çi",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "ـجی",
        "tr": "-ci"
      },
      "expansion": "Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "trk-pro",
        "3": "*-či"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Turkic *-či",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Azerbaijani -çi or Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci), from Proto-Turkic *-či.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ـچی",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-či",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "ـچی",
        "tr": "-či"
      },
      "expansion": "ـچی • (-či)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "-er; -eer"
      ],
      "id": "en-چی-fa-suffix-InTAJl27",
      "links": [
        [
          "-er",
          "-er"
        ],
        [
          "-eer",
          "-eer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "چی"
}

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    "Middle Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Persian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian pronouns",
    "Persian suffixes",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Azerbaijani",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Persian terms derived from Azerbaijani",
    "Persian terms derived from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Persian terms derived from Proto-Turkic",
    "Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian",
    "Persian terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "či budim, či šodim",
      "word": "چی بودیم، چی شدیم"
    },
    {
      "english": "har čiz",
      "word": "هر چیز"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pal",
        "3": "𐭬𐭤",
        "4": "",
        "5": "what, which",
        "sc": "Phli",
        "tr": "čē 􂀿ME􂁀"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭤 (čē [ME], “what, which”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "či",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "tr": "či"
      },
      "expansion": "چی • (či)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Dari",
        "Persian colloquialisms",
        "Persian dated terms",
        "Persian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Whatever I had thought about, I hadn't thought about dying.",
          "roman": "râje' be har či fekr karde budam, râje' be mordan fekr nakarde budam.",
          "text": "راجع به هر چی فکر کرده بودم، راجع به مردن فکر نکرده بودم.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what?"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(interrogative, colloquial, in formal prose dated or Dari) what?"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in formal prose dated or Dari"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "interrogative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Persian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Dari",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Kabuli"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰi]",
      "note": "Hazaragi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰiː]",
      "tags": [
        "Iran",
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ʃʰi]",
      "tags": [
        "Tajik",
        "formal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "če",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary",
        "standard"
      ],
      "word": "چه"
    }
  ],
  "word": "چی"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "Persian lemmas",
    "Persian suffixes",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Azerbaijani",
    "Persian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Persian terms derived from Azerbaijani",
    "Persian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish",
    "Persian terms derived from Proto-Turkic"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "az",
        "3": "-çi"
      },
      "expansion": "Azerbaijani -çi",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "ota",
        "3": "ـجی",
        "tr": "-ci"
      },
      "expansion": "Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "trk-pro",
        "3": "*-či"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Turkic *-či",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Azerbaijani -çi or Ottoman Turkish ـجی (-ci), from Proto-Turkic *-či.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ـچی",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-či",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "suffix",
        "head": "ـچی",
        "tr": "-či"
      },
      "expansion": "ـچی • (-či)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Persian",
  "lang_code": "fa",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "-er; -eer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-er",
          "-er"
        ],
        [
          "-eer",
          "-eer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "چی"
}