ჭუბური

Laz

Alternative forms
  • ჭურბი (ç̌urbi) — Apso, Jigetore
  • ჭუბრი (ç̌ubri) — Vizha, Artasheni, Vitse
  • ჭუვრი (ç̌uvri) — Artasheni, Vitse
  • ჭუბუჲი (ç̌ubuyi), ჭუბუი (ç̌ubui) — alternative spellings

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *c̣₁ab- (“chestnut”).[1][2] See Georgian წაბლი (c̣abli) for more.

Noun

ჭუბური • (ç̌uburi) (Latin spelling ç̌uburi) (Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi, Chkhala)

  1. chestnut
    1. chestnut tree, timber and wood
      ჭუბურიში კაბუღი ჩიჩქუ ივენ. კოლაჲი გოიწკენ. წიფურიზ პეჯი დო კაპეტი კაბუღი გოძინ. ვარგოიწკენ.
      ç̌uburişi ǩabuği çiçku iven. ǩolayi goiǯǩen. ǯipuriz p̌eci do ǩap̌eťi ǩabuği gożin. vargoiǯǩen.
      Chestnuts have a soft bark. It peels easily. Hornbeam is covered with thick and hard bark. It cannot be peeled.
    2. the fruit of the chestnut tree
      ჭუბური ფენცქვაშენ გამახთუში “სო მეშაფხეტი” ჲა თქუდორენ
      ç̌uburi penʒkvaşen gamaxtuşi “so meşapxeťi” ya tkudoren
      When the chestnut came out of its shell, it said, "Where have I been?" (ie. when the chestnut came out, it did not like the shell it lived in. ,ie. People should know and respect their past and where they come from)

Inflection

 
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Declension of ჭუბური (see Laz declension)
singular plural
absolutive ჭუბური ჭუბურეფე
ergative ჭუბურიქ ჭუბურეფექ
dative ჭუბურის ჭუბურეფეს
genitive ჭუბურიშ(ი) ჭუბურეფეშ(ი)
directive ჭუბურიშე ჭუბურეფეშე
ablative ჭუბურიშემ ჭუბურეფეშემ
locative ჭუბურის ჭუბურეფეს
instrumental ჭუბურითენ ჭუბურეფეთენ
Notes: dialects may differ on declension.

Derived terms
  • მწკო ჭუბური (mǯǩo ç̌uburi, “cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) with especially big fruits”)

References
  1. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 305
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 643

Further reading
  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 44
  • Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2020) “ç̌uburi”, in Dictionary of Laz Plant Names (LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries; 3), München: LINCOM GmbH, page 17
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჭუბური”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi

Mingrelian

Etymology

From Proto-Kartvelian *c̣₁ab- (“chestnut”).[1][2] See Georgian წაბლი (c̣abli) for more.

Noun

ჭუბური • (č̣uburi) (plural ჭუბურეფი)

  1. chestnut

References
  1. Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 305
  2. Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 643

Further reading
  • Kajaia, Otar (2005) “ჭუბური”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 1916
  • Kobalia, Alio (2010) “ჭუბური”, in Merab Čuxua, Nona Kobalia, Nana Kobalia, editors, Megruli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian Dictionary] (Ḳolxuri seria; 7)‎, online version prepared by Manana Buḳia, Tbilisi: Artanuji, →ISBN
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