აბჯა

აბჯა

Laz

Alternative forms

• აბჟა (abža) – Vitse
• აბგჲა (abgya)

Etymology

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Noun

აბჯა • (abǯa) (Artasheni)

1. river, creek, stream

   Synonyms: რუბა (ruba), ღალი (ɣali)

   ჰაჲ ნა-ჯელულუნ წარი თუდე აბჯა ელვაკათენ

   hay na-ǯelulun c̣ari tude abǯa elvaḳaten

   The water coming down from here mixes with the river below

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 148
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “abca”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 29b
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “abca”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-09