ჩქარ

Laz

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Aleksiva, from Armenian չկար (čʻkar, “didn't exist, was not”), from կամ (kam).

Adverb

ჩქარ • (çkar) (Latin spelling çkar) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

  1. never
    Synonyms: აჲინა (ayina) [Atina], ჰიჩი (hiçi) [Atina, Artasheni]
    ბიჭი-ჩქიმი, არაბა-ჩქიმი ოხმარინუ შენი დიდო იხვეწენ, ჩქვა მა ჩქარ იზინი ვარ-მეფჩამ
    biç̌i-çkimi, araba-çkimi oxmarinu şeni dido ixveǯen, çkva ma çkar izini var-mepçam
    My son begs a lot to use my car, but I never let him

Further reading
  • Çağatay Aleksiva, Irfan (2019) ““Çkar” kelimesi hakkında”, in Lazoba: İrfan Çağatay Aleksiva'nin Lazlar ve Lazca üzerine fikir yazıları‎ (in Turkish), retrieved 2022-07-19
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “çkar”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
  • Marr, N. (1910) “ჩქარ”, 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 212a
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჩქარ”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
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