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Etymology
Compare Georgian კამპარა (ḳamṗara, “adlay millet (Coix lacryma-jobi)”), კა(მ)პარი (ḳa(m)ṗari, “bladdernuts (Staphylea)”), კაპარი (ḳaṗari, “caper (Capparis spinosa)”), Mingrelian კამპარი (ḳamṗari, “bladdernuts (Staphylea”), Abkhaz а-қампыр (a-kampʼər, “Staphylea colchica”), Pontic Greek κάπαρο (káparo), κάππαρο (kápparo, “Staphylea pinnata”), καπαροτζούφιν (kaparotzoúfin, “a kind of shrub”) (the latter apparently with τζούφος (tzoúfos, “hollow”)). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
კამპარა • (ǩamp̌ara) (plural კამპარაეფე) (Atina)
- elder, black elder (Sambucus nigra)
- Synonym: ტოპტოპი (ťop̌ťop̌i)
Derived terms
- კამპარა მტა (ǩamp̌ara mťa, “Crassocephalum crepidioides”)
- კამპარუჯი (ǩamp̌aruci, “Auricularia auricula-judae”)
Further reading
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 159
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “კამპარა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
- Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “ანწლი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary], 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
- Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2020) “ǩamp̌ara”, in Dictionary of Laz Plant Names (LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries; 3), München: LINCOM GmbH, page 23
- Marr, N. (1910) “კამპარა”, 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 151