უმპა
Laz
Alternative forms
- ომპა (omṗa) – Artasheni
- კუმპა (ḳumṗa) – Sapanca
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *o(m)ṗe-.
Noun
უმპა • (umṗa) (plural უმპაფე, Latin spelling ump̌a) (Vitse–Arkabi)
- navel
- Synonym: წიპა (c̣iṗa)
- umbilical cord
Further reading
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “ump̌a”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 932b
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 840
- Марр, Н. (1910), “უმპა”, 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 192a, derives from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós)
- Tandilava, Ali (2013), “უმპა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi