ფაჩუჩი

Georgian

Etymology

Related to Armenian պաճուճ (pačuč) and together with it borrowed from Iranian: compare Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”). Doublet of ფაფუცი (papuci), ფაფუჭი (papuč̣i).

Noun

ფაჩუჩი • (pačuči)

1. slipper
2. child’s soft leather shoe
3. (dialectal, Kiziqi) poultry leg-tag
4. (dialectal, Tusheti) brush

Further reading

• Bartaia, Nomadi (2010) Kartulši šemosuli sṗarsuli leksiḳa ioseb grišašvilis "kalakuri leksiḳonis" mixedvit [Persian vocabulary borrowed into Georgian according to Ioseb Grishashvili’s 'Urban Dictionary']‎^[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, pages 93–94, 220
• Grišašvili, Ioseb (1997) “ფაჩუჩი”, in Kalakuri leksiḳoni [Urban Dictionary]‎^[2], prepared by Rusudan Ḳusrašvili, Tbilisi: Samšoblo
• Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1975) “ფაჩუჩი”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona [Dictionary of dialectal Georgian words]‎^[3] (in Georgian), volume II, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 150a
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ფაჩუჩი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: Garnett Press