რუბა
Laz
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *rabo- (“ditch”).
Noun
რუბა • (ruba) (Latin spelling ruba)
- (dialectal, Atina, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi) river, creek, stream
- (dialectal, Artasheni, Vitse–Arkabi) valley
- რუბაზ ნა-გოლიჯინუ ზაპიში ჟინდოლე გოლობულურ
- rubaz na-golicinu zap̌işi jindole golobulur
- I'm walking over the snowdrift that stretches sideways in the valley
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| absolutive | რუბა (ruba) | რუბაფე (rubape) |
| ergative | რუბაქ (rubak) | რუბაფექ (rubapek) |
| dative | რუბას (rubas) | რუბაფეს (rubapes) |
| genitive | რუბაშ(ი) (rubaş(i)) | რუბაფეშ(ი) (rubapeş(i)) |
| directive | რუბაშე (rubaşe) | რუბაფეშე (rubapeşe) |
| ablative | რუბაშენ (rubaşen) | რუბაფეშენ (rubapeşen) |
| locative | რუბას (rubas) | რუბაფეს (rubapes) |
| instrumental | რუბათენ (rubaten) | რუბაფეთენ (rubapeten) |
Notes: dialects may differ on declension.
Derived terms
- რუბაკატუ (rubaǩaťu)
- დოლორუბა (doloruba)
Further reading
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 832
- Klaproth, Julius (1823) Asia polyglotta, Paris: A. Schubart, page 122: “Orouba”
- Климов, Г. А. (1988) “Дополнения к этимологическому словарю картвельских языков. III [Additions to the Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages. III]”, in Этимология[1] (in Russian), number 1985, Moscow: Nauka, page 158 of 151–165
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ruba”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[2] (in Turkish), retrieved 9 July 2022
- Marr, N. (1910) “რუბა”, 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 182b
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “რუბა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][3], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi