Sakartvelo

Meanings

proper noun

rareSynonym of Georgia (“a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital: Tbilisi”).
A party of men joined us and soon the toasts began – to Sakartvelo, to Ireland, to me, to them. We drank from horns and I managed to empty both mine without pausing for breath.
1991, Mary Russell, “Heart without Fear”, in Please Don’t Call It Soviet Georgia: A Journey through a Troubled Paradise, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 251
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God looked down and saw the people of Sakartvelo. "Holy cow," thought God (or words to that effect), "I completely forgot about those people. If I don't give them something, they are going to make a terrible nuisance of themselves."
1992, Vladimir Pozner [Jr.], “Monday, August 19, 1991”, in Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 83
While previously there had been independent early feudal political units (the Egris-Abkhazian kingdom, the Kartvelian (Tao-Klarjeti), Kakheti and Hereti kingdoms, and the Tbilisi emirate), and the struggle for the country's unification had been waged between these kingdoms at the end of the tenth century the Georgian lands began to amalgamate around Sakartvelo (united Georgia).
1994, Mariam Lortkipanidze, “Georgia in the XI–XII Centuries”, in Essays on Georgian History, Tbilisi, Georgia: Publishing House “Metsniereba”, →ISBN, page 49
As to the Kartvelian/Georgian culture specifically, as R. Tvardze put it, "The fact that Sakartvelo/Georgia happened to join the Christian orbital has had an enormous impact on the spiritual molding of the Georgian nation."
2012, Marina Cincabadze, “Queen Ketevan and the Christian Culture”, in Jeremy P. Ruther, editor, Foundations of Religion (Religion and Spirituality), New York, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, →ISBN, page 111
Synonyms: Georgia

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounSynonym of Georgia (“a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital: Tbilisi”).

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Georgia

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georgia

Origin

ccs-pro*kart-“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”
ogeსაქართველო
Georgianსაქართველო
EnglishSakartvelo

Borrowed from Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from Old Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from ქართველი (kartveli, “(adjective) of Georgian descent; (noun) person from Georgia”) + სა- -ო (sa- -o, circumfix forming words relating to the concept or thing which the stem to which it is attached refers). ქართველი (kartveli) is ultimately derived from Proto-Kartvelian *kart- (“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”) (whence ქართლი (kartli, “Kartli, historical region of Georgia in the central and eastern part of the country”)).

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