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ქართლი

ქართლი

Georgian

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  The top-level historical and geographical subdivision of Republic of Georgia. 

Proper noun

ქართლი (kartli)

  1. Kartli (historical region of Georgia)
  2. (historical) Caucasian kingdom of Iberia

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Inflection


Old Georgian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Kartvelian *kart-. See also ქართველი (kartveli).

Proper noun

ქართლი (kartli)

  1. kingdom of Georgia
  2. Kartli (region)

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 213
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 458
  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 486
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), ქართლი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 451