სუფთა

According to Ačaṙean who follows Čubinov, possibly borrowed from an Iranian word in the family of Persian سفید (safid, “white”).

• IPA^(key): [supʰtʰa]

სუფთა • (supta) (indeclinable, comparative უფრო სუფთა, superlative ყველაზე სუფთა)

1. blank, pristine, clean, pure, spotless, stainless, unadulterated, unalloyed

• სისუფთავე (sisuptave)

• → Armenian: սուփթա (supʻtʻa) — Tbilisi
• → Udi: суъптаъ (su̱pta̱)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սպիտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 265a
• Čubinov, David (1840) “სუფთა”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 471a
• Čubinov, David (1887) “სუფთა”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[1], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 1202

• Giorgaʒe, Grigol (1999) “О характере некоторых индоевропейско–грузинских (картвельских) языковых параллелей [On the nature of some Indo-European – Georgian (Kartvelian) language parallels]”, in Xetologiuri da kartvelologiuri ʒiebani [Hittitological and kartwelological researches], Tbilisi: Logosi, page 163, connects with Hittite 𒋗𒌒𒁉𒅖 (šu-up-pí-iš /⁠šuppi-⁠/, “purified, sacred”)