სუბუქი

Laz

Alternative forms

  • სუბუქა (subuka) — Sumla, Khopa
  • სუბურქა (suburka) — Chkhala

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Georgian სუბუქი (subuki) (modern მსუბუქი (msubuki)), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (spwk' /⁠sabuk⁠/, “light, easy”), whence Persian سبک (sabuk).

Adjective

სუბუქი • (subuki) (Latin spelling subuki) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa)

  1. mild, slight, lightweight, light
    Synonyms: ფამფა (pampa), ლაჶრონი (lafroni), ჩორჩი (çorçi)
    ჲუქი-ჩქიმი სუბუქი რენ. რახატ-რახატი ბიმერ.
    yuki-çkimi subuki ren. raxať-raxaťi bimer.
    My load is light. I'm carrying it comfortably.

Further reading

  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “subuka”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 875a
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “subuki”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎[1] (in Turkish)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013), “სუბუქი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi
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