შუკა

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (/⁠sūqu⁠/, “street”), from Akkadian 𒆸 (/⁠sâqu⁠/, “to become narrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃukʼa/
• Hyphenation: შუ‧კა

შუკა • (šuḳa) (plural შუკები)

1. (dated) narrow street
2. (dialectal, Imereti, Guria) narrow village street between fences

• (street between fences): ორღობე (orɣobe)

• შუკა-შუკა (šuḳa-šuḳa)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ɣlonṭi, Aleksandre (1975) “შუკა”, in Kartul ḳilo-tkmata siṭq̇vis ḳona [Dictionary of dialectal Georgian words]‎ (in Georgian), volume 2, Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 252

• შურკა (şurǩa), შუკკა (şuǩǩa)

Akin to Mingrelian შინკა (šinḳa) and possibly Ancient Greek σικύα (sikúa). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

შუკა • (şuǩa) (Latin spelling şuǩa, plural შუკაფე)

1. cucumber
2. melon

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 388
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık
• Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “კიტრი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary]‎, 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
• Marr, N. (1910) “შუკა”, 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 207b
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “შუკა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “şuk’a”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
• Ḳalandia, Tea (2007) Buba Ḳudava, editor, 2000 lazuri siṭq̇va: saleksiḳono masala [2000 Laz words: dictionary material] (Ḳolxuri seria; 1), Tbilisi: Artanuji, →ISBN, page 81, glossed as cucumber; considered a "Turkish" borrowing

Borrowed from Old Armenian շուկայ (šukay), from Classical Syriac ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā’), from Akkadian 𒋻 (/⁠sūqu⁠/, “street”), from Akkadian 𒆸 (/⁠sâqu⁠/, “to become narrow”).

შუკა • (šuka)

1. lane, side street, alley
2. square

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շուկայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Kipšidze, Iosif (1914) “შუკა”, 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)‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press