छी

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit छि (chi, “abuse”).[1][2]

Interjection

छी • (chī) (Urdu spelling چھی)

  1. yuck, eww, yech

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “chi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  2. Monier Williams (1899) “छी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 406.
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