# ჶორკა
## Laz
### Alternative forms

* ფორკა (porǩa) — Batumi
* ჶოგა (foga) — Atina, Artasheni
* ჶოკა (foǩa)

### Etymology

Unknown. Has been compared to Laz ფორჩა (porça).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ(ɹ)kʼɑ/
* Hyphenation: ჶორ‧კა

### Noun

ჶორკა • (forǩa) (Latin spelling forǩa) (Vitse–Arkabi, Khopa–Batumi)
* dress
** 1930 – 1931, Niyazi Ahmet Banoğlu, Stories recorded by Georges Dumézil in Istanbul The clothing of the Laz:ვიტოხუთ-ვიტვაშ წანერ ბოზოფე მეტაკსიშ ჶოტა თიზ მოთჶალერ ფუქურონ ბასმაშ ჶორკა დოლოქუნერ დო კუჩხეს წუღა მოდვალერ გულუნან.viťoxut-viťvaş ǯaner bozope meťaǩsiş foťa tiz motfaler pukuron basmaş forǩa dolokuner do ǩuçxes ǯuğa modvaler gulunan.The girls of fifteen to sixteen go around with their heads covered with a silk ჶოტა (foťa), dressed in a flowered calico forka, and wearing shoes.

#### Derived terms

* ჶოგინა (fogina, diminutive)

#### Descendants

* → Georgian: ფორკა (porḳa) — Adjara
* → Turkish: (Rize, Artvin) forka, (Hemşin) foga

### References

* ↑ Dumézil, Georges (1937) Contes lazes (Travaux et mémoires de l'Institut d'ethnologie; 27)‎ (in French), Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, page 127

### Further reading

* Benli, Faruk (2004) “forka”, in Lazuri-Turkili, Turkili-Lazuri Ansiklopedik Laksiyoni [Laz–Turkish–Laz Encyclopedic Dictionary], Istanbul: Kebikeç, page 59b
* Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) “foga”, in Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 122a
* Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan, Aleksiva, Irfan (2007) “foga”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 249a
* Čuxua, Merab (2018) “Axali masalebi kartuli enis isṭoriul-eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis [New Materials for the Georgian Historical-Etymological Dictionary]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XV, Tbilisi, page 96 of 79–113, erroneously links with Old Georgian ფაკელი (paḳeli, “phelonion, headscarf”)
* Erten, Metin (2000) “fork’a”, in Lazca-Türkçe, Türkçe-Lazca Sözlük [Laz–Turkish–Laz dictionary], Istanbul: Anahtar Kitaplar, page 114
* Kabadayı, Müslüm (2001) “elbise”, in Doğu Karadeniz Lehçeleri Karşılaştırmalı Sözlüğü (Deneme): Ermenice - Yunanca - Megrelce - Rumca - Hemşince - Lazca - Gürcüce (in Turkish), Istanbul: Gelenek, →ISBN, page 46
* Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “fork’a”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
* Özşahin, Bayram Ali (2016) “forǩa”, in Sarpişi Lazuri Nenapuna [Sarpi Village Laz Dictionary] (Lazika Sıra; 63) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Lazika, →ISBN, page 51b
* Öztürk, Özhan (2005) “forka”, in Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük [Black Sea: Encyclopaedic Dictionary]‎ (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul: Heyamola Yayınları, page 392a
* Šengelia, Eter (2010) Samoseltan daḳavširebuli leksiḳa megrul-lazurši (isṭoriul-šedarebiti analizi) [Clothing-related lexicon of Mingrelian and Laz languages (a comparative historical analysis)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, page 17
* Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ჶორკა”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi