ბიგა
Laz
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Kartvelian *biga- (“stick, cudgel”), cognate with Georgian ბიგა (biga, “cross-beam (wooden)”), Mingrelian ბიგა (biga, “stick”) and Svan ბიჯ (biǯ, “stick”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editბიგა • (biga) (plural ბიგაფე, Latin spelling biga)
- 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
edit- ხებიგონი (xebigoni, “tyrant, bully”)
Further reading
edit- 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