գորգ

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) carpet

Etymology
Usually considered a word of origin.

Probably related to 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬. For the 🇨🇬 forms listed here a derivation from the Nakh word for ‘round; circle’ has been suggested: compare 🇨🇬,, but this may be a folk etymology.

Perhaps the Northeast Caucasian and Armenian are borrowed from : compare 🇨🇬, ultimately from the Iranian root which gave.

Noun

 * 1) rag, floorcloth

Usage notes
The only attested passage is the commentary on the grammar of Dionysius Thrax, where appears in a list of synonym pairs with, which would develop later into. Based on this passage the dictionaries gloss as ‘carpet’, and the modern literary language has learnedly adopted it as the usual designation for ‘carpet’. The word is not recorded in the dialects. The new Northeast Caucasian parallels prove that the more precise and correct meaning is ‘rag, floorcloth’.