რუბა
Appearance
Laz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Georgian-Zan *rabo- (“ditch”).
Noun
[edit]რუბა • (ruba) (Latin spelling ruba)
- (dialectal, Atina, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi) river, creek, stream
- (dialectal, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi) valley
- რუბაზ ნა-გოლიჯინუ ზაპიში ჟინდოლე გოლობულურ
- rubaz na-golicinu zap̌işi jindole golobulur
- I'm walking over the snowdrift that stretches sideways in the valley
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||
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absolutive | რუბა (ruba) | რუბაფე (rubape) | |
ergative | რუბაქ (rubak) | რუბაფექ (rubapek) | |
dative | რუბას (rubas) | რუბაფეს (rubapes) | |
genitive | რუბაშ(ი) (rubaş(i)) | რუბაფეშ(ი) (rubapeş(i)) | |
directive | რუბაშე (rubaşe) | რუბაფეშე (rubapeşe) | |
ablative | რუბაშენ (rubaşen) | რუბაფეშენ (rubapeşen) | |
locative | რუბას (rubas) | რუბაფეს (rubapes) | |
instrumental | რუბათენ (rubaten) | რუბაფეთენ (rubapeten) | |
Notes: dialects may differ on declension. |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 832
- Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 122: “Orouba”
- Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология[1] (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 158 of 151–165
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ruba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[2] (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09
- Marr, N. (1910) “რუბა”, 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 182b
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “რუბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi