აბჯა

Laz

Alternative forms

• აბჟა (abja) — Vitse

Etymology

From earlier აბგჲა (abgya). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

აბჯა • (abca) (Vizha, Artasheni)

1. river, creek, stream

   Synonyms: რუბა (ruba), ღალი (ğali)

   ჰაჲ ნა-ჯელულუნ წარი თუდე აბჯა ელვაკათენ

   hay na-celulun ǯari tude abca elvaǩaten

   The water coming down from here mixes with the river below

Derived terms

• აბჯაკატუ (abcaǩaťu)

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 148
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “abca”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 29b
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “abca”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09
• Marr, N. (1910) “აბგჲა”, 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 125a