# ბაგენი
## Laz
### Alternative forms

* ბაჯენი (baceni) — Vizha, Artasheni
* ბარგენი (bargeni) — Khopa

### Etymology

A derivative of the verb -ბარგ- (-barg-, “to store; to furnish (house); to care for, to put up (daughters)”), whence ბარგუმს (bargums).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑˈɡɛni/
* Hyphenation: ბა‧გე‧ნი

### Noun

ბაგენი • (bageni) (Latin spelling bageni) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa, Chkhala)
* shed, cottage, hut
    Synonym: ფაცხა (paʒxa)
    ნანაქ მელენ ბაგენიშე ფუჯეფეზ ნჩალა გოლუმერსnanak melen bagenişe pucepez nçala golumersMum is bringing corn straw for the cows to the hut across the street
* barn
    Synonym: ფაცხა (paʒxa)
    ბერექ ფუჯი ბაგენიშე ოჲონუ შენი თოკითენ წინწომსberek puci bagenişe oyonu şeni toǩiten ǯinǯomsThe boy is pulling the cow to the barn with a rope

#### Derived terms

* ნობაგენე (nobagene, a toponym)

#### Related terms

* მებარგუ (mebargu)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: փագեն (pʻagen) — Hamshen
* → Turkish: bagen

### References

* Aleksiva, Irfan Çağatay (2018) “Derleme Sözlüğü'nde Lazca Unsurlar [Laz Elements in the “Dictionary of Word Collection”]”, in Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten (in Turkish), volume 66, number 1, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, pages 117–118
* Amse-de Jong, Tine H. (2004) “bageni, baceni”, in Laz–English Dictionary, Freudenstadt: Kaukasus Verlag, →ISBN, page 2b
* Amse-de Jong, Tine H. (2004) “-barg-”, in Laz–English Dictionary, Freudenstadt: Kaukasus Verlag, →ISBN, page 3b
* Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “bageni”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, pages 54–55
* Bläsing, Uwe (2009) “Artvin Yöresel Sözlüğünden Örnekler: Türkiye Türkçesine Etimolojik Katkılar”, in Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları‎ (in Turkish), number 19, pages 24–25
* Ǯavaxišvili, Ivane (1934) Sakartvelos eḳonomiuri isṭoria - c̣igni II [Economic history of Georgia – Book II] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Pederacia, page 97 of 708, connects with Georgian ბაგა (baga), which is rejected by Bläsing on phonetic grounds
* Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “bageni”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
* Marr, N. (1910) “ბაგენი”, in Грамматика чанского (лазского) языка с хрестоматией и словарем [Grammar of the Chan (Laz) Language with a Reader and a Dictionary] (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 2) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 128b
* Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “bagen, bageni”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎ (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 154a, connects with Georgian ბაგა (baga)
* Öztürk, Özhan (2017) “Serander, Mazı, Paska, Nayla, Bagen (Tahıl ambarları)”, in Özhan Öztürk Makaleleri: Mitoloji, Gezi, Tarih‎ (in Turkish), retrieved 2023-03-26
* Schmidt, Karl Horst (1962) Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der südkaukasischen Grundsprache (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; XXXIV, 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 74
* Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ბაგენი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi