Georgian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lazi/, [ɫazi]
  • Hyphenation: ლა‧ზი

Adjective edit

ლაზი (lazi) (not comparable)

  1. (Of person) Of Laz descent

Noun edit

ლაზი (lazi) (plural ლაზები)

  1. Laz, a person originally coming from the historical and cultural region of Lazistan situated in modern northeast Turkey, along the Black Sea coastline and parts of the Georgian region of Adjara.

Inflection edit

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Laz edit

Etymology edit

The word Laz as an ethnic term is first mentioned in the Latin form of Lazi and Ancient Greek Λαζοί (Lazoí) and Λᾶζαι (Lâzai) in Pliny's Naturalis Historia. "Laz" must have been a name adopted over time by more than one Colchian tribe, as Procopius also stated. The origin is uncertain.

  • Kiria et al. reconstruct Proto-Georgian-Zan *laž- deriving the ethnonym from Georgian and saying the Zan equivalent is preserved in Urartian 𒁹𒇻𒌑𒃻𒀀 (mlu-ú-šá-a /⁠Luša⁠/). Note that the ethnonyms Laz or Chan did not exist in Old Georgian: the Laz were referred to as Mingrelians. Georgian ლაზი (lazi) and Georgian ჭანი (č̣ani) must have entered the Language recently, probably after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) when some parts of Lazona were taken by Russia.
  • According to Nikolai Marr from Svan ლა- (la-) + ზან (zan).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑzi/
  • Hyphenation: ლა‧ზი

Noun edit

ლაზი (lazi) (Latin spelling Lazi)

  1. An ethnic group native to the South Caucasus and Northeastern Anatolia: Laz
    ლაზიში კულტური ლაზებურაშ დოლოხე რენ
    lazişi ǩulťuri lazeburaş doloxe ren
    Laz culture is expressed through the Laz language

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, pages 9-10
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “Lazi”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ლაზი”, 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, page 162a
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ლაზი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi