ბიჭი

Perhaps from Old Georgian ბიჭი (bič̣i, “crumbs”). For the sense development compare Russian кро́шка (króška, “crumb; baby, little one”).

Alternatively, together with Middle Armenian բիճ (bič, “bastard”) borrowed from Iranian: compare Northern Kurdish bîj, bîjî, Central Kurdish بیژوو (bîjû, “bastard”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ბი‧ჭი

ბიჭი • (bič̣i) (plural ბიჭები)

1. (Middle Georgian) bastard, illegitimate child
2. boy, lad, youth
3. son
4. brave man
5. (slang) streetwise/experienced man
6. (archaic) waiter
7. (in the plural, archaic) (male) servants

• კაი ბიჭი (ḳai bič̣i)
• კლავიატურის ბიჭი (ḳlaviaṭuris bič̣i)

• → Laz: ბიჭი (biç̌i)
• → Azerbaijani: bic
• →? Middle Armenian: բիճ (bič)
  • Armenian: բիճ (bič), բիջ (biǰ), փիճ (pʻič)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پیچ (piç)
      • Turkish: piç, pic (dialectal)
      • → Northern Kurdish: pîç
      • → Romanian: pici
• → Svan: ბიჭ (bič̣, “bastard”)

• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 260, connecting with Ossetian биццеу (biccew, “boy”) and other Iranian words
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բիճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 451b
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 52
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 14
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბიჭი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎, London: Garnett Press

Borrowing from Georgian ბიჭი (bič̣i).

ბიჭი • (biç̌i) (Latin spelling biç̌i)

1. (of mamals and humans) male

   Synonym: ქიმოლი (kimoli)

   ბაზი ბიჭჭი ბერეფე ნანაფენიშიშე დოზდუმან.

   bazi biç̌ç̌i berepe nanapenişişe dozduman.

   Some boys (male kids) take after their mothers.

ბიჭი • (biç̌i) (Latin spelling biç̌i)

1. male, man

   Synonym: ქიმოლი (kimoli)

   აშეზ ბოზო ავუ. მეონერიმუში ბიჭი რენ.

   aşez bozo avu. meonerimuşi biç̌i ren.

   Aşe had a daughter. The next one must be a boy.

2. boy

   ბიჭიზ წანა ჭუტა უღუნ. ნოსიქ ვანუკვათამს. მსქვანობაშე მოღერდუნ დო აოროფენ.

   biç̌iz ǯana ç̌uťa uğun. nosik vanuǩvatams. mskvanobaşe moğerdun do aoropen.

   The boy is young. He is not in his right mind. He falls in love with beauty.

3. son

   ხასანიში უნივერსიტეზ ნარენ დიდი ბიჭიქ “ა მუთხა პარე” დეჲი აქშამა ქვა შირუმს.

   xasanişi universiťez naren didi biç̌ik “a mutxa p̌are” deyi akşama kva şirums.

   Khasan's eldest son, who is at university, has been scouring stones all day long for something to do.

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• ბოზობიჭი (bozobiç̌i)

• Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 123: “Biшi”
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “biç’i”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ბიჭი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi

From Proto-Kartvelian *beč̣- ~ *bič̣- (“to crumble, break”). Cognate with Svan ბეჭკჳ- (beč̣ḳw-), ბიჭკჳ- (bič̣ḳw-, “to break (bread, apple, etc.)”).

ბიჭი • (bič̣i)

1. crumbs
   • 5th century, Bible, Mark 7.28:

     ხოლო მან მიუგო და ჰრქუა: უფალო, რამეთუ ძაღლნიცა ტაბლასა ქუეშე ჭამედ ბიჭისაგან შვილთაჲსა

     xolo man miugo da hrkua: upalo, rametu ʒaɣlnica ṭablasa kueše č̣amed bič̣isagan šviltaysa

     And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

• In the Bible translation, corresponds to Old Armenian փշրանք (pʻšrankʻ) and Ancient Greek ψιχίον (psikhíon).

• >? Georgian: ბიჭი (bič̣i)
  • → Laz: ბიჭი (biç̌i)
  • → Azerbaijani: bic
  • →? Middle Armenian: բիճ (bič)
    • Armenian: բիճ (bič), բիջ (biǰ), փիճ (pʻič)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: پیچ (piç)
        • Turkish: piç, pic (dialectal)
        • → Northern Kurdish: pîç
        • → Romanian: pici
  • → Svan: ბიჭ (bič̣, “bastard”)

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “ბიჭი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 76a
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 53–54
• Klimov, G. A. (1964) Этимологический словарь картвельских языков [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Academy Press, page 52
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 14
• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბიჭი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎, London: Garnett Press