ფილაკვანი

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• ფილაკავანი (pilaḳavani), ფილეკავანი (pileḳavani), ფილაკანი (pilaḳani), ფილეკონი (pileḳoni), ფილაგანი (pilagani)

Etymology

Together with Middle Armenian փիլիկոն (pʻilikon) borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

ფილაკვანი • (pilaḳvani)

1. siege catapult
   • 10th century, Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փիլիկոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 501b
• Buyaner, David B. (2017) “Bezeichnungen von Wurfwaffen und Belagerungsgeschützen im Iranischen I: Iranica mutuata II”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[1] (in German), volume 21, number 4, pages 397–414
• Марр, Н. (1909) Тексты и разыскания по армяно-грузинской филологии. Книга IX. Антиох Стратиг. Пленение Иерусалима персами в 614 г. [Texts and research in Armenian–Georgian philology. Book IX. Antiochus Strategos. The Capture of Jerusalem by Persians in 614] (Издания Факультета восточных языков Императорского С.-Петербургского университета; 5)‎^[2], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 15–16
• Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “ფილაკვანი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary]‎^[3], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ფილეკავანი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1257a