მარგალიტი

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• IPA^(key): /marɡalitʼi/, [maɾɡalitʼi]
• Hyphenation: მარ‧გა‧ლი‧ტი

მარგალიტი • (margaliṭi) (plural მარგალიტები)

1. pearl
2. (figuratively) something that is excellent

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• ობოლი მარგალიტი (oboli margaliṭi)

• → Abkhaz: а-мыркы́лд (a-mərkʼə́ld), а-маркылд (a-markʼəld) (possibly via Mingrelian)
• → Avar: маргъал (marğal)
• → Bats: მარგალიტ (margaliṭ)
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• → Svan: მარგლიტ (margliṭ), მარგლი (margli), მარგალი (margali)

• მარგარიტი (margariṭi)

Of the same origin as Old Armenian մարգարիտ (margarit). According to Ačaṙyan, perhaps borrowed from it.

მარგალიტი • (margaliṭi)

1. pearl
2. mother-of-pearl

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• Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), “მარგალიტი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 216b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մարգարիտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 278a
• Blake, Robert P., editor (1934) Epiphanius de Gemmis. The Old Georgian Version and the Fragments of the Armenian Version (Studies and Documents; 2)‎, and the Coptic-Sahidic Fragments by Henry De Vis, London: Christophers, page lxvi
• Čubinov, David (1887), “მარგალიტი, მარგარიტი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 669
• Riabinin, Michel (1898), “Notes de lexicographie géorgienne. Examen du matériel emprunté”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris‎ (in French), volume X, page 13