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Georgian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چوروك آی (çürük ay, literally “month of decay”), whence also dialectal (Black Sea) Turkish çürük ay, Laz ჩურუღაჲი (çuruğayi), Hamshen Armenian չուրուխ (čʻurux).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ჩუ‧რუ‧ღა
Noun
ჩურუღა • (čuruɣa) (Adjara)
- the period of July when it constantly rains
Further reading
- “ჩურუგაი”, in Čveneburebis kartuli leksiḳoni [Dictionary of Chveneburi Georgian] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2011–2014
- Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2013) ““Lazca gülünç” ise Türkçe Kahkahadır”, in lazca.org (in Turkish), retrieved 2023-07-12
- Bläsing, Uwe (2007) “Armenian in the vocabulary and culture of the Turkish Hemshinli”, in Hovann H. Simonian, editor, The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (Peoples of the Caucasus), London and New York: Routledge, page 281