მინთა

Laz

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθᾰ (mínthă).

Noun

მინთა • (minta) (Latin spelling minta, plural მინთეფე)

  1. mint (Mentha spp.)
    Hyponym: სარილუღიჲ ჭამი (sariluğiy ç̌ami)

Further reading

  • Adjarian, H. (1898), “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 375
  • Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2020), “minta”, in Dictionary of Laz Plant Names (LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries; 3), München: LINCOM GmbH, page 33
  • Kiria, Č̣abuḳi; Ezugbaia, Lali; Memišiši, Omar; Čuxua, Merab (2015), Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 814
  • Marr, N. (1910), “მინთა”, 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 167b
  • Rosen, Georg (1844), Über die Sprache der Lazen, Lemgo und Detmold: Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, page 35a
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013), “მინთა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[1], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi