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Adjective

 * 1)  Of Laz descent

Noun

 * 1) Laz, a person originally coming from the historical and cultural region of Lazistan situated in modern northeast Turkey, along the Black Sea coastline and parts of the Georgian region of Adjara.

Etymology
The word Laz as an ethnic term is first mentioned in the Latin form of and  and  in Pliny's Naturalis Historia. "Laz" must have been a name adopted over time by more than one Colchian tribe, as Procopius also stated. The origin is.
 * Kiria et al. reconstruct deriving the ethnonym from Georgian and saying the Zan equivalent is preserved in . Note that the ethnonyms Laz or Chan did not exist in Old Georgian: the Laz were referred to as Mingrelians.  and  must have entered the Language recently, probably after the  when some parts of Lazona were taken by Russia.
 * According to Nikolai Marr from +.

Noun

 * : Laz