აზნაური

Georgian

აზნაური • (aznauri) (plural აზნაურები)

→ Laz: აზნაური (aznauri)
→ Mingrelian: აზნაური (aznauri)
→ Old Anatolian Turkish: ازناور (aznavur)
- Turkish: aznavur, aznavır (dialectal)
- → Armenian: ազնավուր (aznavur), ազնավոր (aznavor), ազնաուր (aznaur), ազնահուր (aznahur), անձնահուր (anjnahur)
→ Persian: ازناور (aznâvur)
→ Russian: азнау́ри (aznaúri)

Borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾznʾwl /⁠āznāwar⁠/, “noble”), the ending reshaped under the influence of -ური (-uri).

აზნაური • (aznauri)

აზნაურებაჲ (aznaurebay, “liberty; nobleness, distinction, nobility; honour”) (Georgian)
აზნაურთაგანი (aznaurtagani, “one of the noblemen”) (Georgian)
გააზნაურება (gaaznaureba, “to enfranchise, to free”) (Georgian)
სააზნაუროჲ (saaznauroy, “nobility tax”) (Georgian)
სიაზნაურეჲ (siaznaurey, “nobility”) (Georgian)
უაზნაურესი (uaznauresi, “freer, freest, nobler, noblest”) (Georgian)
უაზნაურეჲ (uaznaurey, “freer, freest”) (Georgian)

Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1946) “Iranuli c̣armošobis zogi kartuli siṭq̇vis eṭimologiisatvis [On the etymology of some Georgian words of Iranian origin]”, in Iberiul-ḳavḳasiuri enatmecniereba [Ibero-Caucasica]‎^[1] (in Georgian), volume 1, Tbilisi: Academy Press, pages 385–387
Bailey, H. W. (1932) “Iranian Studies”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎^[2], volume 6, number 4, pages 953–954
Bailey, H. W. (1960) “Arya II”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[3], volume 23, number 1, page 17 of 13–39
Bläsing, Uwe (2011) “Turkish aznavur “A Nobleman” or “A Ruffian”: Review of an Etymology”, in Uwe Bläsing and Jasmine Dum-Tragut, editors, Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia‎^[4], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pages 35–50
Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “აზნაური”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 11b