რუბა

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Laz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Georgian-Zan *rabo- (ditch).

Noun

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რუბა (ruba) (plural რუბაფე, Latin spelling ruba)

  1. (dialectal, Atina, Artasheni, VitseArkabi) river, creek, stream
    Synonyms: აბჯა (abca), აბჟა (abja), ღალი (ğali)
    მთუთი არ მითი აზირასი არ ფირჩი ორაში რუბა დოლილაჲ
    mtuti ar miti azirasi ar pirçi oraşi ruba dolilay
    When the bear sees someone, he suddenly goes to the creek
  2. (dialectal, Artasheni, VitseArkabi) valley
    რუბაზ ნა-გოლიჯინუ ზაპიში ჟინდოლე გოლობულურ
    rubaz na-golicinu zap̌işi jindole golobulur
    I'm walking over the snowdrift that stretches sideways in the valley

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Further reading

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  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 832
  • Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология[1] (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 158 of 151–165
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ruba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[2] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09
  • Marr, N. (1910) “რუბა”, 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 182b
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “რუბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi