# Georgian
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/
* (Southern US) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɔʊ.d͡ʒən/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒoːd͡ʒən/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒən
* Hyphenation: Georg‧ian

### Etymology 1

From Georgia +‎ -n.

#### Noun

Georgian (countable and uncountable, plural Georgians)
* (uncountable) The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
* (countable) A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
* (countable) A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.

##### Synonyms

* (native or resident of the Eurasian country of Georgia): Iberian, Kartvelian
* (native or resident of the US state of Georgia): goober, goober-grabbler (dated slang)

##### Hypernyms

* (native or resident of the US state of Georgia): American

##### Hyponyms

* (language of Georgia): Tush

##### Translations
#### Adjective

Georgian (not comparable)
* Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
** 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 10 June 2016:As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.
* Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.

##### Derived terms

* Georgianization
* Georgianize
* Georgian Orthodox Church
* Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

##### Translations
#### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Georgian terms
* Appendix:Georgian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Georgian

### Etymology 2

From George +‎ -ian.

#### Noun

Georgian (plural Georgians)
* (historical) A British citizen during the reign of a king named George.

#### Adjective

Georgian (comparative more Georgian, superlative most Georgian)
* Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830).
* Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910-1936).
* Pertaining to or characteristic of Stefan George (a German poet).
** 2001, Martin Travers, Critics of Modernity: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1890–1933, page 82:The same Georgian persona, leonine and sacerdotal (that of the aristocratic priest) appears throughout the reminiscences of all his disciples.
** 2005, Ernst Osterkamp, “The Legacy of the George Circle”, in Exile, Science and Bildung: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals, page 23:Another example of this sterile Georgian orthodoxy is to be found in the case of Ernst Morwitz ...
** 2012, Paul Fleming, “Bodies: Ernst H. Kantorowicz”, in “Escape to Life”: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium on Exile after 1933, page 227:Kantorowicz […] warns against confusing a Georgian aesthetic “secret Germany,” which still slumbered in concealment, with contemporary, ‘awakened’ Nazi Germany.
* Of or pertaining to Saint George.

##### Hyponyms

* Regency (as noun adjunct)

##### Derived terms

* Georgian Bay
* Georgian Bluffs
* Lloyd-Georgian

### Further reading

* ISO 639-1 code ka, ISO 639-3 code kat (SIL)
* Ethnologue entry for Georgian, kat ⁠
* Georgian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Georgina

## Finnish
### Proper noun

Georgian
* genitive singular of Georgia