ნახპეტი

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• ნახაპეტი (naxaṗeṭi)

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing, possibly via Old Armenian նախապետ (naxapet).

Noun

ნახპეტი • (naxṗeṭi)

1. governor, head of a city
   • 5th century and later, Bible, Judith 5.2:

     […] ნახპეტთა ზღჳს-კიდისათა […]

     […] naxṗeṭta zɣwis-ḳidisata […]

     […] the governors of the sea coast […]

2. tribal chief

References

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ნახპეტი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 325
• Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)‎^[2] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 142–150
• Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 77