ნჯა

• მჯა (mca) — Jigetore, Vizha, Ortaalan
• ჯა (ca) — Chkhala

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒ₁el-.

• IPA^(key): /nd͡ʒɑ/

ნჯა • (nca) (plural ჯალეფე, plural ნჯაფე, Latin spelling nca) (Apso, Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)

1. tree

   Synonym: აღაჯი (ağaci)

   • 1960 – 1964, Muhsin Erol (a native of Şenköy born in 1940), Stories recorded by Georges Dumézil in Istanbul The Wizard and His Apprentice:[1]

     ჰე-თი, მუნთხა უნტუ ივეტუ: ჲანი კინჩი ივეტუ, ფუთხუტუ; ჯოღოჲ ივეტუ, ლალუმტუ; ნჯა ივეტუ, ქვა ივეტუ, დუნჲას მუ ჭეშიტი შეჲ ტუ იჲი ივეტუ.

     he-ti, muntxa unťu iveťu: yani ǩinçi iveťu, putxuťu; coğoy iveťu, lalumťu; nca iveťu, kva iveťu, dunyas mu ç̌eşiťi şey ťu iyi iveťu.

     The man in black had the ability to become whatever he wanted, that is to say, he became a bird (and) flew, he became a dog (and) barked, he became a tree, he became a stone, he became all kinds of things in the world.

2. timber, lumber, billet, log

   Synonym: ქერესთე (kereste)

   მემეტიქ არ დიდი ნჯა თოკითე ეკითორამს

   memeťik ar didi nca toǩite eǩitorams

   Memet is dragging a huge log

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 239 spelled as Ja
• Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 894
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “nca”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
• Marr, N. (1910) “ჯა”, 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 235a
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ნჯა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi