ბია

Georgian

Etymology

From Classical Persian به (bih).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bia/, [b̥ia]
  • Hyphenation: ბია

Noun

ბია • (bia) (plural ბიები)

  1. wild quince (Cydonia oblonga)
  2. (dialectal, Guria, Imereti, Kiziqi, Ingilo) Synonym of კომში (ḳomši)

Inflection

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Derived terms

  • ბიისი (biisi, toponym)
  • ბიეთი (bieti, toponym)

Descendants

  • Abkhaz: а-биа (a-bja)
  • Laz: ბიჲა (biya) Chkhala
  • Mingrelian: ბია (bia)
  • Ossetian: биа (bia) Digor

Proper noun

ბია • (bia)

  1. A small village in Georgia

References

  1. Abajev, V. I. (1958) “bia”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 260

Further reading

  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2010) “Von Baumnamen gebildete georgische Siedlungsnamen”, in Namenkundliche Informationen (in German), volume 97, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, page 135 of 133–143
  • Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1974) “ბია”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona [Dictionary of dialectal Georgian words] (in Georgian), volume I, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 72b
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