იფქლი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian იფქლი (ipkli), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *i-pk-l-, possibly from Proto-Kartvelian *pek-, *pk- (“to grind”) (whence also Georgian ფქვა (pkva) and Svan ფექ (pek)). Cognate with Mingrelian ირქი (irki).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ipʰkʰli/
• Hyphenation: იფ‧ქლი

Noun

იფქლი • (ipkli) (uncountable)

1. A type of wheat

Inflection

Declension of იფქლი (see Georgian declension)
	singular	plural	archaic plural
nominative	იფქლი (ipkli)
ergative	იფქლმა (ipklma)
dative	იფქლს(ა) (ipkls(a))
genitive	იფქლის(ა) (ipklis(a))
instrumental	იფქლით(ა) (ipklit(a))
adverbial	იფქლად(ა) (ipklad(a))
vocative	იფქლო (ipklo)
Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

Postpositional inflection of იფქლი (see Georgian postpositions)
postpositions taking a dative case	singular	plural
-ზე (-ze, “on”)	იფქლზე (ipklze)
-თან (-tan, “near”)	იფქლთან (ipkltan)
-ში (-ši, “in”)	იფქლში (ipklši)
-ვით (-vit, “like”)	იფქლივით (ipklivit)
postpositions taking a genitive case	singular	plural
-თვის (-tvis, “for”)	იფქლისთვის (ipklistvis)
-ებრ (-ebr, “like”)	იფქლისებრ (ipklisebr)
-კენ (-ḳen, “towards”)	იფქლისკენ (ipklisḳen)
-გან (-gan, “from/of”)	იფქლისგან (ipklisgan)
postpositions taking an instrumental case	singular	plural
-დან (-dan, “from/since”)	იფქლიდან (ipklidan)
-ურთ (-urt, “together with”)	იფქლითურთ (ipkliturt)
postpositions taking an adverbial case	singular	plural
-მდე (-mde, “up to”)	იფქლამდე (ipklamde)

Derived terms

• იფქლის პური (ipklis ṗuri)

Old Georgian

FWOTD – 15 February 2023

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *i-pk-l-, possibly from Proto-Kartvelian *pek-, *pk- (“to grind”).

Noun

იფქლი • (ipkli)

1. wheat
   • 5th century and later, Bible, Luke 22.31:

     ეშმაკმან გამოგითხოვნა თქუენ აღცრად, ვითარცა იფქლი

     ešmaḳman gamogitxovna tkuen aɣcrad, vitarca ipkli

     Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat

2. fruit (the seed-bearing part of a plant)

Descendants

• Georgian: იფქლი (ipkli)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 83
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 216
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 258
• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “იფქლი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 189