აზნაური

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian აზნაური (aznauri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aznauɾi]
• Hyphenation: აზ‧ნა‧უ‧რი

Noun

აზნაური • (aznauri) (plural აზნაურები)

1. (historical) noble, belonging to the aznauri class of Georgian nobility

Related terms

• სააზნაურო (saaznauro)
• უაზნო (uazno)

Descendants

• → Laz: აზნაური (aznauri)
• → Mingrelian: აზნაური (aznauri)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: ازناور (aznavur)
  • Turkish: aznavur, aznavır (dialectal)
  • → Armenian: ազնավուր (aznavur), ազնավոր (aznavor), ազնաուր (aznaur), ազնահուր (aznahur), անձնահուր (anjnahur)
• → Persian: ازناور (aznâvur)
• → Russian: азнау́ри (aznaúri)

Old Georgian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾznʾwl /⁠āznāwar⁠/, “noble”), the ending reshaped under the influence of -ური (-uri).

Adjective

აზნაური • (aznauri)

1. free, noble

Derived terms

• აზნაურებაჲ (aznaurebay, “liberty; nobleness, distinction, nobility; honour”)
• აზნაურთაგანი (aznaurtagani, “one of the noblemen”)
• გააზნაურება (gaaznaureba, “to enfranchise, to free”)
• სააზნაუროჲ (saaznauroy, “nobility tax”)
• სიაზნაურეჲ (siaznaurey, “nobility”)
• უაზნაურეჲ (uaznaurey, “freer, freest”)
• უაზნაურესი (uaznauresi, “freer, freest, nobler, noblest”)

Related terms

• აზნაჲ (aznay)

Descendants

• Georgian: აზნაური (aznauri)
  • → Laz: აზნაური (aznauri)
  • → Mingrelian: აზნაური (aznauri)
  • → Old Anatolian Turkish: ازناور (aznavur)
    • Turkish: aznavur, aznavır (dialectal)
    • → Armenian: ազնավուր (aznavur), ազնավոր (aznavor), ազնաուր (aznaur), ազնահուր (aznahur), անձնահուր (anjnahur)
  • → Persian: ازناور (aznâvur)
  • → Russian: азнау́ри (aznaúri)

References

• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1946) “Iranuli c̣armošobis zogi kartuli siṭq̇vis eṭimologiisatvis [On the etymology of some Georgian words of Iranian origin]”, in Iberiul-ḳavḳasiuri enatmecniereba [Ibero-Caucasica]‎^[1] (in Georgian), volume 1, Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 385–387
• Bailey, H. W. (1932) “Iranian Studies”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎^[2], volume 6, number 4, pages 953–954
• Bailey, H. W. (1960) “Arya II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[3], volume 23, number 1, page 17 of 13–39
• Bläsing, Uwe (2011) “Turkish aznavur “A Nobleman” or “A Ruffian”: Review of an Etymology”, in Uwe Bläsing and Jasmine Dum-Tragut, editors, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia‎^[4], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pages 35–50
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “აზნაური”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 11b