ბრინჯი

Georgian

Etymology

From Middle Persian blnj (brinǰ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brind͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: ბრინ‧ჯი

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Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi) (uncountable)

1. rice

Derived terms

• ბრინჯივით დაიბნევა (brinǯivit daibneva)

Descendants

• Bezhta: биринжи (birinži)
• Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)

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Mingrelian

Etymology

From Georgian ბრინჯი (brinǯi).

Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

1. rice

See also

• ორზა (orza)

References

• Kipšidze, I. (1914), “ბრინჯი”, in Grammatika mingrelʹskovo (iverskovo) jazyka s xrestomatijej i slovarem [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Materialy po jafetičeskomu jazykoznaniju; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 207b

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Old Georgian

Etymology

Related to Middle Armenian բռինչ (bṙinčʿ).

Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

1. nettle tree (Celtis spp.)
   • 9th–14th centuries, The Georgian Chronicles 85.13–86.1:

     და მუნ დგა ხჱ შუენიერი ბრინჯისაჲ

     da mun dga xē šuenieri brinǯisay

     • Translation by Robert W. Thomson

       there stood an acacia tree

Further reading

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014), “ბრინჯი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 81a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բռինչ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 491a
• Čubinov, David (1887), “ბრინჯაოს ხე”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 117a
• Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961), “აკაკი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary], 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota sakartvelo
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბრინჯი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press