ფილაკვანი

• ფილაკავანი (pilaḳavani), ფილეკავანი (pileḳavani), ფილაკანი (pilaḳani), ფილეკონი (pileḳoni), ფილაგანი (pilagani)

Together with Middle Armenian փիլիկոն (pʿilikon) borrowed from Iranian.

ფილაკვანი • (pilaḳvani)

1. siege catapult

   10th century, Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem

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• Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716), “ფილაკვანი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [The Wisp of Georgian Words That Beeth a Dictionary], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949
• Sardshweladse, Surab; Fähnrich, Heinz (2005), “ფილეკავანი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1257a