ფაჩუჩი

Georgian

Etymology

Related to Armenian պաճուճ (pačuč) and together with it borrowed from Iranian: compare Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”). Doublet of ფაფუცი (papuci), ფაფუჭი (papuč̣i).

Noun

ფაჩუჩი • (pačuči)

  1. slipper
  2. child’s soft leather shoe
  3. (dialectal, Kiziqi) poultry leg-tag
  4. (dialectal, Tusheti) brush

Further reading
  • Bartaia, Nomadi (2010) Kartulši šemosuli sṗarsuli leksiḳa ioseb grišašvilis "kalakuri leksiḳonis" mixedvit [Persian vocabulary borrowed into Georgian according to Ioseb Grishashvili’s 'Urban Dictionary']‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, pages 93–94, 220
  • Grišašvili, Ioseb (1997) “ფაჩუჩი”, in Kalakuri leksiḳoni [Urban Dictionary]‎, prepared by Rusudan Ḳusrašvili, Tbilisi: Samšoblo
  • Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1975) “ფაჩუჩი”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona [Dictionary of dialectal Georgian words]‎ (in Georgian), volume II, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 150a
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ფაჩუჩი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎, London: Garnett Press
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