ბიგა

Laz

Alternative forms

• ბიკა (biǩa) — Atina

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *biga- (“stick, cudgel”), cognate with Georgian ბიგა (biga, “cross-beam (wooden)”), Mingrelian ბიგა (biga, “stick”) and Svan ბიჯ (biǯ, “stick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡɑ/
• Hyphenation: ბი‧გა

Noun

ბიგა • (biga) (plural ბიგაფე, Latin spelling biga)

1. stick, walking stick

   Synonym: კეტი (ǩeťi)

   ბერექ ობირალე ბიგაფემუში დუვარიზ ნონჩაკამს

   berek obirale bigapemuşi duvariz nonçaǩams

   Child sticks his toy sticks into the wall

Derived terms

• ხებიგონი (xebigoni, “tyrant, bully”)

Further reading

• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “biga”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 64b
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 776
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “biga”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Marr, N. (1910) “ბიგა”, 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 130ბ
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ბიგა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi