ბრინჯი

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Georgian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Persian blnj (brinǰ).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /brind͡ʒi/
  • Hyphenation: ბრინ‧ჯი
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Noun[edit]

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi) (uncountable)

  1. rice

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Mingrelian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Georgian ბრინჯი (brinǯi).

Noun[edit]

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

  1. rice
    Synonym: ორზა (orza)

References[edit]

  • Kajaia, Otar (2005), “ბრინჯი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 128
  • Кипшидзе, Иосиф (1914), “ბრინჯი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 207b

Old Georgian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Middle Armenian բռինչ (bṙinčʿ).

Noun[edit]

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

  1. nettle tree (Celtis spp.)
    • 9th–14th centuries, The Georgian Chronicles 85.13–86.1:[1]
      და მუნ დგა ხჱ შუენიერი ბრინჯისაჲ
      da mun dga xē šuenieri brinǯisay
      • Translation by Robert W. Thomson
        there stood an acacia tree

References[edit]

  1. ^ Thomson, Robert W. (1996) Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 101

Further reading[edit]

  • 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
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