ჶორკა

Laz

Alternative forms

• ფორკა (porǩa) — Batumi
• ჶოგა (foga) — Atina, Artasheni
• ჶოკა (foǩa)

Etymology

Unknown. Has been compared to Laz ფორჩა (porça).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ(ɹ)kʼɑ/
• Hyphenation: ჶორ‧კა

Noun

ჶორკა • (forǩa) (Latin spelling forǩa) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. dress
   • 1930 – 1931, Niyazi Ahmet Banoğlu, Stories recorded by Georges Dumézil in Istanbul The clothing of the Laz:

     ვიტოხუთ-ვიტვაშ წანერ ბოზოფე მეტაკსიშ ჶოტა თიზ მოთჶალერ ფუქურონ ბასმაშ ჶორკა დოლოქუნერ დო კუჩხეს წუღა მოდვალერ გულუნან.

     viťoxut-viťvaş ǯaner bozope meťaǩsiş foťa tiz motfaler pukuron basmaş forǩa dolokuner do ǩuçxes ǯuğa modvaler gulunan.

     The girls of fifteen to sixteen go around with their heads covered with a silk ჶოტა (foťa), dressed in a flowered calico forka, and wearing shoes.

Derived terms

• ჶოგინა (fogina, diminutive)

Descendants

• → Georgian: ფორკა (porḳa) — Adjara
• → Turkish: (Rize, Artvin) forka, (Hemşin) foga

Further reading

list of references

• Benli, Faruk (2004) “forka”, in Lazuri-Turkili, Turkili-Lazuri Ansiklopedik Laksiyoni [Laz–Turkish–Laz Encyclopedic Dictionary], Istanbul: Kebikeç, page 59b
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) “foga”, in Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 122a
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “foga”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 249a
• Čuxua, Merab (2018) “Axali masalebi kartuli enis isṭoriul-eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis [New Materials for the Georgian Historical-Etymological Dictionary]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XV, Tbilisi, page 96 of 79–113, erroneously links with Old Georgian ფაკელი (paḳeli, “phelonion, headscarf”)
• Erten, Metin (2000) “fork’a”, in Lazca-Türkçe, Türkçe-Lazca Sözlük [Laz–Turkish–Laz dictionary], Istanbul: Anahtar Kitaplar, page 114
• Kabadayı, Müslüm (2001) “elbise”, in Doğu Karadeniz Lehçeleri Karşılaştırmalı Sözlüğü (Deneme): Ermenice - Yunanca - Megrelce - Rumca - Hemşince - Lazca - Gürcüce (in Turkish), Istanbul: Gelenek, →ISBN, page 46
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “fork’a”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[2] (in Turkish)
• Özşahin, Bayram Ali (2016) “forǩa”, in Sarpişi Lazuri Nenapuna [Sarpi Village Laz Dictionary] (Lazika Sıra; 63) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Lazika, →ISBN, page 51b
• Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “forka”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎^[3] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 392a
• Šengelia, Eter (2010) Samoseltan daḳavširebuli leksiḳa megrul-lazurši (isṭoriul-šedarebiti analizi) [Clothing-related lexicon of Mingrelian and Laz languages (a comparative historical analysis)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, page 17
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჶორკა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[4], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi