ბაგინი

Old Georgian

Etymology

Together with Old Armenian բագին (bagin) borrowed from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bagáh (“god”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás.

Noun

ბაგინი • (bagini)

  1. pagan shrine
  2. sacrificial altar

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971) , “բագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 374a
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006) , “ბაგინი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press
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