სერენთი

Laz

Alternative forms

• სეენთი (seenti) — alternative spelling
• სერენდერი (serenderi) — Jigetore
• სერენდე (serende) — Jigetore, Artasheni, Firtina Valley
• სერენდი (serendi) — Vizha
• სელენდერი (selenderi) — Chkhala

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish serender and its various forms, which are themselves borrowed from Pontic Greek ξεραντέρ' (xerantér').

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈ(ɹ)ɛntʰi/
• Hyphenation: სე‧რენ‧თი

Noun

სერენთი • (serenti) (Latin spelling serenti) (Arkabi, Khopa, Chkhala)

1. wooden barn in traditional Laz architecture, which is placed on four pillars to prevent mice from entering

   Synonym: ნაჲლა (nayla)

   Coordinate term: ბაგენი (bageni)

   ემინე ხალაქ ნეძი გორუ დო ნანაქ სერენთიზ გჲუტახამს

   emine xalak neżi goru do nanak serentiz gyuťaxams

   My aunt Emine wants walnuts, so my mother cracks them in the serenti

Further reading

More information

• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “serender”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 866b
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “serenti/seenti”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Marr, N. (1910) “სერენდე”, 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 183
• Öztürk, Özhan (2017) “Serander, Mazı, Paska, Nayla, Bagen (Tahıl ambarları)”, in Özhan Öztürk Makaleleri: Mitoloji, Gezi, Tarih‎^[2] (in Turkish), retrieved 2023-04-02
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “სერენთი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎^[4] (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 362, page 93