ფიმფილი
Laz
Alternative forms
- ფიმბილი (pimbili), ფინბილი (pinbili) – Atina
Etymology
Borrowed from Georgian ფიმფილი (pimpili, “corn hair; earlobe”), itself from Proto-Georgian-Zan *pimp-, whence also Mingrelian ფიმფი (pimpi, “corn hair”).[1]
Noun
ფიმფილი • (pimpili) (Vitse)
- beard
Further reading
- Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 382, also glosses ფიმფილონი (pimpiloni, “king”, literally “bearded”).
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 296, compares Mingrelian ფრიმული (primuli), which is probably not related.
- Tandilava, Ali (2013), “ფიმფილი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
- Kiria, Č̣.; Ezugbaia, L.; Memišiši, O.; Čuxua, M. (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 842
- Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳon [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, page 72―73
- Марр, Н. (1910), “ფიმფილი”, 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 198a―199b
References
- Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 436