ძემური

Laz

Alternative forms

  • ძემბრი (żembri) Atina
  • ძენური (żenuri)

Etymology

From ძემურ- < *ძემრ- < *ძომრ- (żemur- < *żemr- < *żomr-), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ʒaml-.

Noun

ძემური (żemuri) (plural ძუმერეფე, Latin spelling żemuri)

  1. a kind of big mountain rat
  2. squirrel
    Synonyms: ღუტუღუტუ (ğuťuğuťu), ჩიქილაზე (çikilaze), კატარაზი (ǩaťarazi), მანწიფურე (manǯipure), მლუდი (mludi), ღაჲლა (ğayla)

References

  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 342, glosses as Turkish sincap (squirrel)
  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “żemuri”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 975a
  • Марр, Н. (1910), ძემური”, 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 217a, glosses as Russian большая горная мышь (bolʹšaja gornaja myšʹ, big mountain mouse)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013), ძემური”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi, glosses as Georgian ვირთაგვა (მთის) (virtagva (mtis), mountainous rat)
  • Gigineišvili, Bakar (1982), “Mr ḳonsonanṭuri ǯgupis suṗeraciisatvis Č̣anuris Atinur ḳiloḳavši [On the resolution of the mr consonant cluster in the Atina dialect of Laz]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), issue 2, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 120―123, glosses as Georgian ვირთაგვა (virtagva, rat)
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