შიოშ

Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• შიო (šio), სიაოშ (siaoš)

Etymology

From Persian سیاوش (siyâvaš).

Proper noun

შიოშ • (šioš)

1. a male given name, Shiosh, Shioshi, or Shio
   • 9th–14th centuries, The Georgian Chronicles :

     შემდგომად ამისსა მცირედთა წელთა კუალად გამოგზავნა ამან-ვე ქეკაპოს ძის-წული მისი, ძე შიოშ ბედნიერისა, რომელი მოიკლა თურქეთს, ვითარცა წერილ არს წიგნსა სპარსთა ცხოვრებისასა.

     šemdgomad amissa mciredta c̣elta ḳualad gamogzavna aman-ve keḳaṗos ʒis-c̣uli misi, ʒe šioš bednierisa, romeli moiḳla turkets, vitarca c̣eril ars c̣ignsa sṗarsta cxovrebisasa.

     • Translation by Robert W. Thomson

       A few years after this the same K‘ekapos again dispatched his grandson, the son of Šioši the fortunate who had been killed in Turk‘et‘i, as is written in the books of the History of the Persians.

Descendants

• Georgian: შიოშ (šioš), შიოში (šioši), შიო (šio)
  • → Armenian: Շիոշ (Šioš)
• → Middle Armenian: Բիուաբ (Biuab) (an incorrect transliteration due to orthographic confusion)

Further reading

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1948) “Շիօշ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 26) (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 166
• Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 508–509, 542
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Syāwaršan”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 300a
• Rapp, Stephen H. (1997) Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past (in two volumes), PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, pages 73–75
• Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 192