კა̈პ

Svan

Alternative forms

• კა̈მპ (ḳämṗ), კაპ (ḳaṗ)

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Kartvelian *ḳaṗ- (“stick; pole”).

Noun

კა̈პ • (ḳäṗ) (plural კაპა̈რ)

1. pole, column, pillar
2. support
3. a kind of stick for stretching hides, pelts
4. bifurcated (tree branch, tree)

Further reading

• Topuria, Varlam, Kaldani, Maksime (1994) “კა̈პ”, in Svanuri leksiḳoni [Svan Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Merani-3 Publishing, page 749
• Nižaradze, B. Š. (2012) “კაპი”, in Gruzino-svansko-russkij slovarʹ. Verxnebalskij dialekt [Georgian–Svan–Russian Dictionary: Upper Bal Dialect], 2nd edition, prepared for publication and prefaced by Lela Nižaradze, Tbilisi: Universal, page 128a, glossed as Georgian კაპი (ḳaṗi), however the Russian translation rather implies Georgian ორკაპა (orḳaṗa, “bifurcated (of tree branches, trees)”)