მსხალი

Georgian

ოთხი მსხალი

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Georgian სხალი (sxali), from Proto-Kartvelian *msxal- (“pear”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /msxali/, [msχali]
  • Hyphenation: მსხა‧ლი

Noun

მსხალი • (msxali) (plural მსხალები)

  1. pear (fruit)

Inflection

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Descendants

  • → Armenian: մսխալի (msxali, “a certain variety of grapevine”)
  • → Tsez: цихоли (cixoli, “wild (of apples, pears, and other fruits)”)

References

  • Čikobava, Arnold et al., editors (1950–1964), “მსხალი”, in Kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Academy Press
  • Maq̇ašvili, Aleksandre (1961) “მსხალი”, in Boṭaniḳuri leksiḳoni [Botanical Dictionary]‎, 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Sabč̣ota Sakartvelo
  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “მსხალი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press, page 1006
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 125
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 296
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