აზნაური

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Etymology

From Old Georgian აზნაური (aznauri).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: აზ‧ნა‧უ‧რი

Noun

აზნაური • (aznauri) (plural აზნაურები)

  1. (historical) noble, belonging to the aznauri class of Georgian nobility

Descendants

Old Georgian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian (ʾznʾwl /⁠āznāwar⁠/, “noble”), the ending reshaped under the influence of -ური (-uri).

Adjective

აზნაური • (aznauri)

  1. free, noble

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1946) “Iranuli c̣armošobis zogi kartuli siṭq̇vis eṭimologiisatvis [On the etymology of some Georgian words of Iranian origin]”, in Iberiul-ḳavḳasiuri enatmecniereba [Ibero-Caucasica]‎ (in Georgian), volume 1, Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 385–387
  • Bailey, H. W. (1932) “Iranian Studies”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎, volume 6, number 4, pages 953–954
  • Bailey, H. W. (1960) “Arya II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎, volume 23, number 1, page 17 of 13–39
  • Bläsing, Uwe (2011) “Turkish aznavur “A Nobleman” or “A Ruffian”: Review of an Etymology”, in Uwe Bläsing and Jasmine Dum-Tragut, editors, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia‎, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pages 35–50
  • Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “აზნაური”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 11b
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