Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Kartvelian *biga- (stick, cudgel), cognate with Georgian ბიგა (biga, cross-beam (wooden)), Mingrelian ბიგა (biga, stick) and Svan ბიჯ (biǯ, stick).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɡɑ/
  • Hyphenation: ბი‧გა

Noun

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ბიგა (biga) (plural ბიგაფე, Latin spelling biga)

  1. stick, walking stick
    Synonym: კეტი (ǩeťi)
    ბერექ ობირალე ბიგაფემუში დუვარიზ ნონჩაკამს
    berek obirale bigapemuşi duvariz nonçaǩams
    Child sticks his toy sticks into the wall

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “biga”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 64b
  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 776
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “biga”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ბიგა”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 130ბ
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ბიგა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi