სუფთა

From Hittite [script needed] (suppi, “clean”). Most likely a Proto-Kartvelian borrowing during the late, Proto-Karto-Zan stage of development (XIX-VIII centuries BC).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

On the other hand, according to Ačaṙean, borrowed from Iranian from a word in the family of Persian سفید‎ (safid, “white”).

• IPA^(key): /supʰtʰɑ/

სუფთა • (supta) (comparative უფრო სუფთა, superlative ყველაზე სუფთა)

1. blank, pristine, clean, pure, spotless, stainless, unadulterated, unalloyed

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սպիտակ”, 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 265a