მოვი

Georgian

Etymology

Uncertain. See English moff for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [movi]
• Hyphenation: მო‧ვი

Noun

მოვი • (movi) (plural მოვები)

1. (dated, Tbilisi, Kartli, Kiziqi, Khevi) soft silk fabric for shirtmaking, a moff

Descendants

• →? Armenian: մով (mov), մովի (movi) — Ararat, Tbilisi

Further reading

• Grišašvili, Ioseb (1997) “მოვი”, in Kalakuri leksiḳoni [Urban Dictionary]‎^[1], prepared by Rusudan Ḳusrašvili, Tbilisi: Samšoblo, pages 155–156
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “მოვი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: Garnett Press
• Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1974) “მოვი”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona [Dictionary of dialectal Georgian words]‎^[3] (in Georgian), volume I, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 369a
• Čubinov, David (1887) “მოვი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[4], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 793