ზარი

Georgian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zari/,
• Hyphenation: ზა‧რი

Etymology 1

From Old Georgian ზარი (zari).

Noun

ზარი • (zari) (plural ზარები)

1. terror, fear; consternation

   შიშის ზარის დაცემა ― šišis zaris dacema ― to strike with terror

Etymology 2

From Old Georgian ზარი (zari). The sense "call" is probably a semantic loan from Russian звоно́к (zvonók).

Noun

ზარი • (zari) (plural ზარები)

1. (Middle Georgian) tumult, noise

   ზარი და ზეიმი ― zari da zeimi ― noisy rejoicing

2. bell
3. call (particularly by phone)

Etymology 3

From Persian زار (zâr).

Noun

ზარი • (zari)

1. lamenting

Derived terms

• გლოვის ზარი (glovis zari)

Etymology 4

From Persian زار (zâr).

Noun

ზარი • (zari) (plural ზარები)

1. (dated, colloquial) die (object used in games of chance)

Synonyms

• კამათელი (ḳamateli)

Etymology 5

From Persian زر (zar).

Noun

ზარი • (zari)

1. (Tbilisi) gold thread

   Synonym: ოქრომკედი (okromḳedi)

References

• Grišašvili, Ioseb (1997) “ზარი”, in Kalakuri leksiḳoni [Urban Dictionary]‎, prepared by Rusudan Ḳusrašvili, Tbilisi: Samšoblo, page 98

Further reading

• Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ზარი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎, London: Garnett Press

Laz

Alternative forms

• ზაი (zai) — alternative spelling

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish زار (zar, “die”), from Arabic زَهْر (zahr, “cube, die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑɾi/, /ˈzɑ(ɹ)i/
• Hyphenation: ზა‧რი

Noun

ზარი • (zari) (Latin spelling zari)

1. dice (a cube-shaped game tool used in games such as backgammon, with six spots numbered one through six)

   თავლა ოსთერუ ვაგიჩქინ დო ზარის მუ აკვან?

   tavla osteru vagiçkin do zaris mu aǩvan?

   If you don't know how to play backgammon, what do you want from the dice?

2. (dialectal, Vizha) fortune, chance, luck

   Synonyms: იგბალი (igbali), შანსი (şansi)

   გოწონერი წანა მიღურტუ ზარი

   goǯoneri ǯana miğurťu zari

   I was lucky last year

   (literally, “Last year I had luck”)

Old Georgian

Etymology 1

From the first word of the idiomatic Old Armenian *զարհի հարկանել (*zarhi harkanel, “to dread, to fear”, literally “to be struck to fear”), attested in the later form զահի հարկանել (zahi harkanel). See զ- (z-, “to”), ահ (ah, “fear”) and հարկանեմ (harkanem, “to strike”)

Noun

ზარი • (zari)

1. terror, fear

Derived terms

Descendants

• Georgian: ზარი (zari)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ահ”, 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 112b
• Марр, Н. (1917) “Грузинская поэма “Витязь в барсовой шкуре” Шоты из Рустава и новая культурно-историческая проблема. I. Племенная среда [Shota Rustaveli's Georgian poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" and a new cultural-historical problem. I. The ethnic environment]”, in Известия Академии наук‎ (in Russian), volume XI, number 7, Academy Press, page 445 of 415–446
• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ზარი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 457a

Etymology 2

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Noun

ზარი • (zari)

1. throng
2. tumult; noise

Descendants

• Georgian: ზარი (zari)

References

• Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ზარი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 457a

Further reading

• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 187, reconstructs Proto-Georgian-Zan *zar- for Georgian ზარი (zari, “bell”) and Mingrelian ზორი (zori, “loud sound issued by a horn”)