უბა

Laz

Alternative forms

• ობა (oba) — Khopa

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ube/a- (“bosom, lap”). Cognate with Georgian უბე (ube, “bay, bosom”) and Mingrelian ლუბა (luba), უბა (uba), ლჷბა (ləba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈubɑ/
• Hyphenation: უ‧ბა

Noun

უბა • (uba) (plural უბაფე, Latin spelling uba) (Atina, Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. chest, bosom, breast

   Synonyms: გჲონქსი (gyonksi), გურპიჯი (gurp̌ici)

   ხასანიქ უბა-მუშის ჭაკი მეშკიდუმს

   xasanik uba-muşis ç̌aǩi meşǩidums

   Hasan puts the pocketknife in his bosom

Further reading

• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 840
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “uba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “უბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi