ნჭამი

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Akin to Georgian წამალი (c̣amali).

Noun

ნჭამი (nç̌ami) (Latin spelling nç̌ami) (VitseArkabi, KhopaBatumi)

  1. medication, drug, medicine
    Synonyms: ლაჯი (laci), ილაჯი (ilaci), აბუტრაკი (abuťraǩi)
  2. poison
    Synonyms: აღუ (ağu), ღურზული (ğurzuli), აბუტრაკი (abuťraǩi), ღურძული (ğurżuli)
  3. (dialectal, Arkabi) yeast
    Synonym: მაკათი (maǩati)

Inflection

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Further reading

  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 878
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*c̣₁am- // *c̣₁em-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 306
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “nç’ami”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ნჭამი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi