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Laz
Etymology
Akin to Mingrelian ქვარა (kvara, “stomach, tummy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʰɔɾbɑ/, /ˈkʰɔ(ɹ)bɑ/
- Hyphenation: ქორ‧ბა
Noun
ქორბა • (korba) (plural ქორბაფე, Latin spelling korba)
- belly, tummy, stomach
- (dialectal, Vizha) craw of birds
- Synonym: ხოხონჭა (xoxonç̌a)
კინჩი მონთინაფემუში ოჩუ შენი ქორბაშა ოშკომალეფე ეშკიღაჲ- ǩinçi montinapemuşi oçu şeni korbaşa oşǩomalepe eşǩiğay
- The bird pulls food from its crop to feed its young
Derived terms
Further reading
- Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 84–85
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 849, compares Georgian ბოქვენი (bokveni, “groin”)
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “korba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Marr, N. (1910) “ქორბა”, 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 198b
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ქორბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi