მოლაღური

Georgian

A golden oriole perched on a fig tree

Alternative forms

  • მალაღური (malaɣuri) Imereti

Etymology

Akin to Laz მალაღუდე (malağude), მალაღური (malağuri), Mingrelian მალაღური (malaɣuri).

Probably a derivative of ლეღვი (leɣvi, fig) (itself umlauted from an earlier *ლაღვ- (*laɣv-)) due to bird's fondness of eating figs: compare dialectal მე-ლეღვ-ია (me-leɣv-ia, golden oriole), Laz მა-ლუღ-ე (ma-luğ-e), Mingrelian მა-ლუღ-ია (ma-luɣ-ia), all of which are transparently derived from fig.

Typologically compare Middle Armenian թզկերուկ (tʻzkeruk, literally fig-eater).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /molaɣuri/, [moɫaʁuɾi]
  • Hyphenation: მო‧ლა‧ღუ‧რი

Noun

მოლაღური • (molaɣuri) (plural მოლაღურები)

  1. golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus)
    Synonyms: მელეღვია (meleɣvia), გულყვითელა (gulq̇vitela) [Kakheti, Khevsureti], კვირიონი (ḳvirioni) [Guria, Kakheti], თუთაბალიაჲ (tutabaliay) [Ingilo], შვილო გოგია (švilo gogia) [Guria]

Inflection

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Further reading

  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “მოლაღური”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • მოლაღური”, in Imeruli leksiḳoni [Imeretian Dictionary] (in Georgian), Kartuli dialekṭuri ḳorṗusi, 2006–2009
  • Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 120–123
  • Eristavi, Rapiel (1884) Краткий грузино-русско-латинский словарь, из трех естественных царств природы [Concise Georgian–Russian–Latin dictionary, from the three natural kingdoms], Тифлис: тип. Канцелярии главноначальствующего гражд. частью на Кавказе, § 238, page 126
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