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Georgian
Etymology
From Armenian հալավ (halav).
Pronunciation
Noun
ალავი • (alavi) (plural ალავები)
- (obsolete) groom's present to bride
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1898) “Jaynabanutʻiwn (Lautlehre) vracʻerēn hayerēnicʻ pʻoxaṙeal baṙeri [The phonology of Georgian borrowings from Armenian]”, in Ararat (in Armenian), volume 31, number 7, Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 312a
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1898) “Jaynabanutʻiwn (Lautlehre) vracʻerēn hayerēnicʻ pʻoxaṙeal baṙeri [The phonology of Georgian borrowings from Armenian]”, in Ararat (in Armenian), volume 31, number 8, Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, pages 367a, 367b
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հալաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 10a
- Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “ალავი”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
- Čubinašvili, Niḳo (1812–1825) “ჰალავი”, in Kartuli leksiḳoni rusulis targamaniturt [Georgian Explanatory Dictionary with Russian Commentaries], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
- Čubinov, David (1840) “ჰალავი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 690
- Čubinov, David (1887) “ჰალავი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 1777
- Kluge, Theodor (1914) “Die Indo-Germanischen Lehnwörter im Georgischen (Suite)”, in Revue de linguistique et de philologie comparée (in German), volume 47, Paris, page 39
- Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ალავი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press