ავაზანი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian ავაზანი (avazani). Doublet of აბაზანა (abazana).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /avazani/
  • Hyphenation: ავა‧ზა‧ნი

Noun

ავაზანი (avazani) (plural ავაზანები)

  1. (chemistry) distillation retort (a hermetically sealed vessel/vial/container for heating liquids and distillation)
  2. (dialectal, Adjara, Meskheti, Imerkhevi) large, elongated trough under a spring collecting water for the cattle

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Turkish: ağzan, avzon, avazan

References

Old Georgian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian աւազան (awazan), from Iranian. See Persian آبزن (âbzan, bath, pool) for more.

Noun

ავაზანი (avazani)

  1. pool, water tank
  2. cauldron, basin
  3. (Christianity) baptismal font

Descendants

References

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), ავაზანი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 2
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), աւազան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 352ab
  • Bläsing, Uwe (2017), “Ortsnamen aus Artvin : ართვინის ტოპონიმიკა : Sprachlich-kulturelle Berührungen an der türkisch-georgischen Grenze”, in M. Németh et al., editors, Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, pages 119–120
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