ბაგინი

Old Georgian

Etymology

Together with Old Armenian բագին (bagin) borrowed from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bagáh (“god”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás.

Noun

ბაგინი • (bagini)

  1. pagan shrine
  2. sacrificial altar

Synonyms

  • ბომონი (bomoni)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 374a
  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ბაგინი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎[1] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 28a
  • Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 226
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “ბაგინი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary‎[2], London: Garnett Press
  • Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1991) “ბაგინი”, in I. Abulaʒe, editor, Leksiḳoni kartuli [Georgian dictionary]‎[3] (in Georgian), volume I, compiled 1685–1716, Tbilisi: Merani, →ISBN, page 88b
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