ფიმფილი

Laz

Alternative forms

• ფინბილი (pinbili) — Atina
• ფიმბილი (pimbili) — Atina, Vizha, Okordule, Chanapeti

Etymology

Borrowed from Georgian ფიმფილი (pimpili, “corn hair; earlobe”), itself from Proto-Georgian-Zan *pimp-, whence also Mingrelian ფიმფი (pimpi, “corn hair”).

Noun

ფიმფილი • (pimpili) (Latin spelling pimpili) (Okordule, Sumla, Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi, Chkhala)

1. beard

   Synonym: ჩენგე (çenge)

   ბიჭეფეზ ფიმფილი ჲუხთამტაშა ოღუნე ფუზური აჩანენ

   biç̌epez pimpili yuxtamťaşa oğune puzuri açanen

   Men grow fine hairs before they grow a beard

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Pimpili (At., Bt., Tr.), Pinpili, Pirpili (Er. 64)”, in “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 382, also glosses ფიმფილონი (pimpiloni, “king”, literally “bearded”).
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 296, compares Mingrelian ფრიმული (primuli), which is probably not related.
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ფიმფილი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 842
• Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 122: “Pimpili”
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “pimpili”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[2] (in Turkish)
• Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 72―73
• Marr, N. (1910) “ფიმფილი”, 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 198a―199b