ღურა
Laz
Etymology
From ღურ- (ğur-, “to die”) + -ა (-a, “suffix that creates nouns from verbs”).
Noun
ღურა • (ğura) (Latin spelling ğura)
- death
- კაჲ კაჲი კოჩიში ღურა ჩუმენან.
- ǩay ǩayi ǩoçişi ğura çumenan.
- They are waiting for the man's death.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| absolutive | ღურა (ğura) | ღურაფე (ğurape) |
| ergative | ღურაქ (ğurak) | ღურაფექ (ğurapek) |
| dative | ღურას (ğuras) | ღურაფეს (ğurapes) |
| genitive | ღურაშ(ი) (ğuraş(i)) | ღურაფეშ(ი) (ğurapeş(i)) |
| directive | ღურაშე (ğuraşe) | ღურაფეშე (ğurapeşe) |
| ablative | ღურაშენ (ğuraşen) | ღურაფეშენ (ğurapeşen) |
| locative | ღურას (ğuras) | ღურაფეს (ğurapes) |
| instrumental | ღურათენ (ğuraten) | ღურაფეთენ (ğurapeten) |
Notes: dialects may differ on declension.
Further reading
- Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 237
- Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 147
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “ğura”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı[1] (in Turkish)
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 855
- Marr, N. (1910) “ღურა”, 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 202a
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ღურა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary][2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
Mingrelian
Etymology
From Proto-Kartvelian *ɣar-.
Noun
ღურა • (ɣura) (uncountable)
Further reading
- Kajaia, Otar (2005) “ღურა”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 1586
- Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “ღურა”, in Грамматика мингрельского (иверского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Mingrelian (Iverian) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 7)[3] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 353a
- Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 855
- Kobalia, Alio (2010) “ღურა”, in Merab Čuxua, Nona Kobalia, Nana Kobalia, editors, Megruli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian Dictionary] (Ḳolxuri seria; 7)[4], online version prepared by Manana Buḳia, Tbilisi: Artanuji, →ISBN