ბრინჯი

Georgian

Etymology

From Middle Persian blnc (brinǰ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /brind͡ʒi/, [b̥ɾind͡ʒi]
  • Hyphenation: ბრინ‧ჯი
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Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi) (uncountable)

  1. rice

Derived terms
  • ბრინჯივით დაიბნევა (brinǯivit daibneva)

Descendants
  • → Abkhaz: а-бры́нџь (a-brə́ndž), а-пры́нџь (a-pʼrə́ndž) (or via Mingrelian)
  • → Bats: ბრინჯ (brinǯ)
  • → Bezhta: биринжи (birinži)
  • → Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
  • → Svan: ბრინჯ (brinǯ)

Mingrelian

Etymology

From Georgian ბრინჯი (brinǯi).

Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

  1. rice
    Synonym: ორზა (orza)

References
  • Kajaia, Otar (2005) “ბრინჯი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 128
  • Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ბრინჯი”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 207b

Old Georgian

Etymology

Related to Middle Armenian բռինչ (bṙinčʻ).

Noun

ბრინჯი • (brinǯi)

  1. nettle tree (Celtis spp.)
    • 9th–14th centuries, The Georgian Chronicles 85.13–86.1:[1]
      და მუნ დგა ხჱ შუენიერი ბრინჯისაჲ
      da mun dga xē šuenieri brinǯisay
      • Translation by Robert W. Thomson
        there stood an acacia tree

References
  1. Thomson, Robert W. (1996) Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 101

Further reading
  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “ბრინჯი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 81a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բռինչ”, 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 491a
  • Čubinov, David (1887) “ბრინჯაოს ხე”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 117a
  • Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “აკაკი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary]‎, 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბრინჯი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎, London: Garnett Press
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