პულა

Laz

Alternative forms

• მპულა (mp̌ula), ბულა (bula), მფულა (mpula)

Etymology

Akin to Mingrelian პულა (ṗula, “steam, vapor”).

Noun

პულა • (p̌ula) (plural პულაფე)

1. cloud

   Synonym: ბულუთი (buluti)

2. fog

Derived terms

• პულერა (p̌ulera), მპულერა (mp̌ulera)
• მფულერი (mpuleri)
• მფულუა (mpulua)

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 153
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “mpula”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 588b, glossing with sis
• Hervás, Lorenzo (1787) Vocabolario poligloto, con prolegomeni sopra più di CL lingue (in Italian), Cesena: Gregorio Biasini, pages 66, 68, glossing with nuvola and bulut
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 829
• Marr, N. (1910) “პულა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 180b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “პულა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi