შუკა

Georgian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (/⁠sūqu⁠/, “street”), from Akkadian 𒆸 (/⁠sâqu⁠/, “to become narrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃukʼa]
• Hyphenation: შუ‧კა

Noun

შუკა • (šuḳa) (plural შუკები)

1. (dated) narrow street
2. (dialectal, Imereti, Guria) narrow village street between fences

Synonyms

• (street between fences): ორღობე (orɣobe)

Derived terms

• შუკა-შუკა (šuḳa-šuḳa)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1975) “შუკა”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona‎^[1] (in Georgian), volume 2, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 252

Laz

Alternative forms

• შურკა (şurǩa), შუკკა (şuǩǩa)

Etymology

Akin to Mingrelian შინკა (šinḳa) and possibly Ancient Greek σικύα (sikúa). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

შუკა • (şuǩa) (Latin spelling şuǩa, plural შუკაფე)

1. cucumber
2. melon

References

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 388
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık
• Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “კიტრი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni‎^[2], 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
• Marr, N. (1910) “შუკა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 207b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “შუკა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni‎^[3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “şuk’a”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[4] (in Turkish)
• Ḳalandia, Tea (2007) Buba Ḳudava, editor, 2000 lazuri siṭq̇va: saleksiḳono masala (Ḳolxuri seria; 1), Tbilisi: Artanuji, →ISBN, page 81, glossed as cucumber; considered a "Turkish" borrowing

Mingrelian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (/⁠sūqu⁠/, “street”), from Akkadian 𒆸 (/⁠sâqu⁠/, “to become narrow”).

Noun

შუკა • (šuka)

1. lane, side street, alley
2. square

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “შუკა”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎^[5] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press