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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Mingrelian ხოპი (xoṗi), Georgian ხოპი (xoṗi), Old Armenian խոփ (xopʻ).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈxɔpʼɛ/
  • Hyphenation: ხო‧პე

Noun edit

ხოპე (xop̌e) (Latin spelling xop̌e)

  1. shovel
    ბაბაქ ხოპეთე ახირიზ ლეტა ამობღამს
    babak xop̌ete axiriz leťa amobğams
    My father pours soil into the barn with a shovel
  2. oar
  3. a shovel-like part in the mechanism called წარიმანგანა (ǯarimangana)

Further reading edit

  • Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 397
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խոփ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 423–424
  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “xop̌e”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 959a
  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 891
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “xopʼe”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ხოპე”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 233b
  • Rosen, Georg (1844) Über die Sprache der Lazen, Lemgo und Detmold: Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, page 32a, derives from Ancient Greek κωπίον (kōpíon)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ხოპე”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi