ზარი
Georgian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Georgian ზარი (zari).
Noun
[edit]- terror, fear; consternation
- შიშის ზარის დაცემა ― šišis zaris dacema ― to strike with terror
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Georgian ზარი (zari). The sense "call" is probably a semantic loan from Russian звоно́к (zvonók).
Noun
[edit]- (Middle Georgian) tumult, noise
- ზარი და ზეიმი ― zari da zeimi ― noisy rejoicing
- bell
- call (particularly by phone)
Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from Persian زار (zâr).
Noun
[edit]ზარი • (zari)
Derived terms
[edit]- გლოვის ზარი (glovis zari)
Etymology 4
[edit]Borrowed from Persian زار (zâr).
Noun
[edit]- (dated, colloquial) die (object used in games of chance)
- Synonym: კამათელი (ḳamateli)
Etymology 5
[edit]Borrowed from Persian زر (zar).
Noun
[edit]ზარი • (zari)
References
[edit]- Grišašvili, Ioseb (1997) “ზარი”, in Kalakuri leksiḳoni [Urban Dictionary][1], prepared by Rusudan Ḳusrašvili, Tbilisi: Samšoblo, page 98
Further reading
[edit]- Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ზარი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary[2], London: Garnett Press
Laz
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ზაი (zai) — alternative spelling
Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “die”), from Arabic زَهْر (zahr, “cube, die”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ზარი • (zari) (Latin spelling zari)
- dice (a cube-shaped game tool used in games such as backgammon, with six spots numbered one through six)
- თავლა ოსთერუ ვაგიჩქინ დო ზარის მუ აკვან?
- tavla osteru vagiçkin do zaris mu aǩvan?
- If you don't know how to play backgammon, what do you want from the dice?
- (dialectal, Vizha) fortune, chance, luck
Old Georgian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the first word of the idiomatic Old Armenian *զարհի հարկանել (*zarhi harkanel, “to dread, to fear”, literally “to be struck to fear”), attested in the later form զահի հարկանել (zahi harkanel). See զ- (z-, “to”), ահ (ah, “fear”) and հարկանեմ (harkanem, “to strike”)
Noun
[edit]ზარი • (zari)
Derived terms
[edit]- ზარ-ჴდა (zar-qda)
- ზარგანჴდილ-ყოფა (zarganqdil-q̇opa)
- ზარგანჴდილი (zarganqdili)
- ზარება (zareba)
- ზარის-განჴდაჲ (zaris-ganqday)
- ზარის-ცემა (zaris-cema)
- ზარისაღსაჴდელი (zarisaɣsaqdeli)
- ზარისსაჴდელი (zarissaqdeli)
- ზარტეხილი (zarṭexili)
- ზარცემული (zarcemuli)
- ზარჴდილი (zarqdili)
Descendants
[edit]- Georgian: ზარი (zari)
References
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 112b
- Marr, N. (1917) “Грузинская поэма “Витязь в барсовой шкуре” Шоты из Рустава и новая культурно-историческая проблема. I. Племенная среда [Shota Rustaveli's Georgian poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" and a new cultural-historical problem. I. The ethnic environment]”, in Известия Академии наук[3] (in Russian), volume XI, number 7, Petrograd: Academy Press, page 445 of 415–446
- Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ზარი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 457a
Etymology 2
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Noun
[edit]ზარი • (zari)
Descendants
[edit]- Georgian: ზარი (zari)
References
[edit]- Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ზარი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 457a
Further reading
[edit]- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 187, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *zar- for Georgian ზარი (zari, “bell”) and Mingrelian ზორი (zori, “loud sound issued by a horn”)
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