ჭიმა

Laz

Alternative forms

• მჭვიმა (mç̌vima), ჭვიმა (ç̌vima), მჭიმა (mç̌ima)

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *c̣₁wim-a- (“rain”), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *c̣₁wim- (“to rain”).

Noun

ჭიმა • (ç̌ima) (plural ჭიმეფე)

1. rain

Further reading

• Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 159
• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 183
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჭიმა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
• Marr, N. (1910) “ჭიმა”, 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 225a

Svan

Noun

ჭიმა • (č̣ima)

1. Alternative form of ჭი̄მა (č̣īma)