Old Georgian

Alternative forms

• იგრი ‎(igri)

Noun

ვიგრი • ‎(vigri)

1. Uncertain, but it could have been a type of large animal. see usage notes.

Usage notes

According to David Chubinashvili’s Грузинский толковый словарь с русскими комментариями, p. 216: "vigri is an animal similar to a lizard but bigger; its skin is dotted with bones, with which (skin) scabbards and other military equipment are covered." According to others the animal in question is a tiger. According to Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani the word stands for a crocodile.

References

• The Life of King Vakhtang Gorgasali (in Russian) See commentary No. 54.
• Čubinov, David (1840), “ვიგრი”, in Gruzinsko-russko-francuzskij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 201
• Čubinov, David (1887), “ვიგრი”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Lubotsky: Indo-Aryan inherited lexicon.
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “վագր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935

1. ↑ Stephen H. Rapp, Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past, Volume 1, p 407