პატარა

From Old Georgian პატარა (ṗaṭara); see there for more.

• IPA^(key): /pʼatʼara/, [pʼatʼaɾa]
• Hyphenation: პა‧ტა‧რა

პატარა • (ṗaṭara) (comparative უფრო პატარა, superlative ყველაზე პატარა)

1. little, small

• მცირე (mcire)

• დიდი (didi)

• პატარაობა (ṗaṭaraoba)
• დიდი თუ პატარა (didi tu ṗaṭara)
• პატარკაციშვილი (ṗaṭarḳacišvili)

• პაატა (ṗaaṭa)

Attested only once in the first book of XI-century hymnographer Ezra of Mtatsminda.

According to Ačaṙean, borrowed from Old Armenian պատառ (pataṙ, “piece, morsel (of bread)”). The sense “little, small” of modern Georgian is present also in dialectal Armenian պատառ (pataṙ, “little, small”) and Udi пӏатӏар (ṗaṭar, “little, small”), also from Armenian.

Compare also ფატარი (paṭari, “crumbly (bread, wood); rotten, hollow”).

პატარა • (ṗaṭara)

1. small piece of bread

• Georgian: პატარა (ṗaṭara)

• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “პატარა”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 337
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պատառ”, 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 36