ფილაკვანი
Old Georgian
Alternative forms
- ფილაკავანი (pilaḳavani), ფილეკავანი (pileḳavani), ფილაკანი (pilaḳani), ფილეკონი (pileḳoni), ფილაგანი (pilagani)
Etymology
Together with Middle Armenian փիլիկոն (pʿilikon) borrowed from Iranian.
Noun
ფილაკვანი • (pilaḳvani)
- siege catapult
- 10th century, Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “փիլիկոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 501b
- Buyaner, David B. (2017), “Bezeichnungen von Wurfwaffen und Belagerungsgeschützen im Iranischen I: Iranica mutuata II”, in Iran and the Caucasus (in German), volume 21, issue 4, pages 397–414
- Марр, Н. (1909) Тексты и разыскания по армяно-грузинской филологии. Книга IX. Антиох Стратиг. Пленение Иерусалима персами в 614 г. [Texts and research in Armenian–Georgian philology. Book IX. Antiochus Strategos. The Capture of Jerusalem by Persians in 614] (Издания Факультета восточных языков Императорского С.-Петербургского университета; 5), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, pages 15–16
- Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716), “ფილაკვანი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [The Wisp of Georgian Words That Beeth a Dictionary], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949
- Sardshweladse, Surab; Fähnrich, Heinz (2005), “ფილეკავანი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1257a