სისირი

As pointed out by Ačaṙean, borrowed from Armenian սի՛սիր (sísir), the regular Tbilisi dialect descendant of Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn).

Čubinov and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language compared with Latin cicer, but this cannot be the direct source of the Georgian word due to phonological and chronological reasons. Nevertheless, the Latin word is connected with Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn).

• IPA^(key): /sisiri/
• Hyphenation: სი‧სი‧რი

სისირი • (sisiri) (plural სისირები)

1. chickpea

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սիսեռն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 218
• Čubinov, David (1887), “სისირი”, in Gruzinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 1180
• Arnold Čikobava et al., editors (1950–64), “სისირი”, in kartuli enis ganmarṭebiti leksiḳoni [Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian language] (in Georgian), Tbilisi