მაგანა

Mingrelian

Etymology

Kipšidze connects with Georgian მანგალი (mangali), and Ačaṙean puts the word under the list of borrowings from Old Armenian մանգաղ (mangał).

On the other hand, Klimov / Xalilov derive from Greek μαγγάνα (mangána) glossing it “machine”, probably meaning Greek μάγγανο (mángano), Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “the name of various machines”).

Noun

მაგანა • (magana)

1. sickle

Descendants

• → Abkhaz: амага́на (amagána), абага́на (abagána)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մանգաղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 251b
• Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, page 128
• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “მაგანა”, 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)‎^[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 275a
• Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, page 159