ნაჲლა

Laz

Alternative forms

• ნალჲა (nalya), ნალია (nalia)

Etymology

Akin to Georgian ნალია (nalia). See it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑjlɑ/
• Hyphenation: ნაჲ‧ლა

Noun

ნაჲლა • (nayla) (plural ნაჲლაფე, Latin spelling nayla) (Ortaalan, Vitse–Arkabi)

1. wooden barn in traditional Laz architecture, which is placed on four pillars to prevent mice from entering

   Synonym: სერენთი (serenti)

   ნაჲლას ირ ოჭკომალე ფშინახუმთ

   naylas ir oç̌ǩomale pşinaxumt

   We store all kinds of food in the nayla

Usage notes

• According to Seçkin Yeniçırak (apud Kojima), Laz people in Çamlıhemşin (Vizha in Laz) call this structure სერენდი (serendi) in Laz and nayla in Turkish.

Descendants

• → Turkish: nalya, naliya, naliye, nayla, nalia (partly from Georgian)

References

More information

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “nalya”, in “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 377
• Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2018) “Derleme Sözlüğü'nde Lazca Unsurlar [Laz Elements in the “Dictionary of Word Collection”]”, in Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten (in Turkish), volume 66, number 1, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 125 of 115–134
• Artvinli, Taner (2022) “nalya”, in Artvin Etimoloji Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Istanbul: Telemak Kitap, →ISBN, page 396a
• Bläsing, Uwe (2009) “Artvin Yöresel Sözlüğünden Örnekler: Türkiye Türkçesine Etimolojik Katkılar”, in Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları‎^[1] (in Turkish), number 19, pages 25–28
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “nayla”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 619a
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “nayla”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[2] (in Turkish)
• Marr, N. (1910) “ნალჲა”, 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 172b
• Öztürk, Özhan (2017) “Serander, Mazı, Paska, Nayla, Bagen (Tahıl ambarları)”, in Özhan Öztürk Makaleleri: Mitoloji, Gezi, Tarih‎^[3] (in Turkish), retrieved 2023-03-26
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ნალია”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[4], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi