წამალი

Georgian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Georgian წამალი (c̣amali).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sʼamali/
  • Hyphenation: წა‧მა‧ლი

Noun

წამალი • (c̣amali) (plural წამლები)

  1. medicine
  2. (colloquial) drug
  3. gunpowder

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Bats: წომალ (c̣omal)
  • Middle Armenian: Ծամալ (Camal)

See also

Old Georgian

Etymology

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Noun

წამალი • (c̣amali)

  1. paint, dye
  2. medicine

Further reading

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “წამალი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 531b
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*c̣₁am- // *c̣₁em-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 306
  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 878, compares Laz ჭამი (ç̌ami, medicine), Mingrelian ჩხე-შ-ჭამ-ი (čxe-š-č̣am-i, centaury (Centaurium umbellatum))
  • Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, page 154
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