სენაკი
Georgian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Georgian სენაკი (senaḳi), together with Old Armenian սենեակ (seneak) borrowed from Iranian. Cognate with Mingrelian სანაკი (sanaḳi).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
სენაკი • (senaḳi) (plural სენაკები)
- (dated, Christianity) small chamber (for priests, nuns and others)
Proper noun edit
სენაკი • (senaḳi)
References edit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979) “սենեակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 201ab
- Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, pages 368–369
- Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26)[1] (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 229–235
- Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 59