Georgian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bardi/, [b̥aɾdi]
  • Hyphenation: ბარ‧დი

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Kartvelian *bard-; see there for more.

Noun edit

ბარდი (bardi) (plural ბარდები)

  1. undergrowth, brush, bushes
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Mingrelian: ბარდი (bardi)
    • Abkhaz: а-бард (a-bard)

References edit

  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბარდი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
  • Čubinov, David (1887) “ბარდი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎[1], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 97

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Russian бард (bard).

Noun edit

ბარდი (bardi) (plural ბარდები)

  1. bard (singer among the ancient Celts)

Laz edit

Etymology edit

From Armenian բարդ (bard).

Noun edit

ბარდი (bardi) (Latin script bardi)

  1. haystack, straw stack; particularly, stack of fern collected for manuring the ground

References edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բարդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ბარდი”, 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

Mingrelian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Georgian ბარდი (bardi). Doublet of ბურდი (burdi).

Noun edit

ბარდი (bardi)

  1. undergrowth, brush, bushes

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ბარდი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎[2] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 201a