თამადა

Georgian

Etymology

Borrowed from Circassian. See Kabardian тхьэмадэ (tḥɛmadɛ) for more.[1][2][3][4]

First attested at least in 1887 in Georgian-Russian Dictionary by David Chubinashvili.[5]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʰamada/
  • Hyphenation: თა‧მა‧და

Noun

თამადა • (tamada) (plural თამადები)

  1. tamada

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Armenian: թամադա (tʻamada)
  • → Bats: თამად (tamad)
  • → English: tamada
  • → Ossetian: тамада (tamada)
  • → Russian: тамада́ (tamadá)
  • → Ukrainian: тамада́ (tamadá)

References
  1. Abaev, V. I. (1975) “Contribution à l'histoire des mots”, in Mélanges linguistiques offerts à Emile Benveniste (in French), Louvain: Peeters, pages 8–10
  2. Abajev, V. I. (1979) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 227
  3. Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 82–83
  4. Klimov, G. A. (1994) Einführung in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft [Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics]‎ (in German), German adaptation by Jost Gippert, Hamburg: Buske Helmut, pages 295–296
  5. Čubinov, David (1887) “თამადა”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press

Further reading
  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “თამადა”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
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