ქალე

Laz

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Georgian ქალი (kali).

Interjection

ქალე • (kale) (Latin spelling kale) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa, Chkhala)

  1. (exclamation used to address a lady) o, woman, hey
    Synonym: ბე (be)
    აღუსთოზი მულუნ ათმაჯაშ ორა/ ვა-მპორომ-ი, ქალე ბოზო გჲოზგჲორა/ ვა-მპორომნა დოთქვი ბაშქა გობგორა/ მუჭო პა დო სო ბიდა ე ვერანე.
    ağustozi mulun atmacaş ora/ va-mp̌orom-i, kale bozo gyozgyora/ va-mp̌oromna dotkvi başka gobgora/ muç̌o p̌a do so bida e verane.
    August is coming, the time of the hawk / Don't you love me girl, it seems / If you don't love me, tell me, I'll look for someone else / What should I do, where should I go, oh dear.

See also

Further reading

  • Adjarian, H. (1898), “kale”, in “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 365
  • Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “kale”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 392a
  • Kojima, Gôichi (2012–), “kale”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎[1] (in Turkish)
  • Tandilava, Ali (2013), “ქალე”, 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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