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Etymology edit

From Old Georgian გუარი ~ გოვარი ← *გოარი (guari ~ govari ← *goari), from Middle Persian gwhl (gōhar, substance, essence, nature, stock, lineage).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡvari/, [ɡ̊ʷaɾi]
  • Hyphenation: გვა‧რი

Noun edit

გვარი (gvari) (plural გვარები)

  1. surname
  2. breed, family, kind, name, sort, stock
  3. (grammar) voice

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References edit

  • Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 302–304
  • Delshad, Farshid (2009) Georgica et Irano-Semitica: Studien zu den iranischen und semitischen Lehnwörtern im georgischen Nationalepos „Der Recke im Pantherfell“ (Dissertation)[1] (in German), Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, pages 118–120
  • გორ”, in Ingilouri leksiḳoni [Ingiloan Dictionary]‎[2] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2011–2014

Further reading edit

  • Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 61, reconstructs Proto-Kartvelian *gwar-; discarded in later works