# ლარი
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɫaɾi]
* Hyphenation: ლა‧რი

### Etymology 1

Perhaps from Classical Persian لَارِی (lārī).

#### Noun

ლარი • (lari) (plural ლარები)
* lari, the national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri

##### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

##### Descendants

* → English: lari

#### See also

* თეთრი (tetri)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Georgian ლარი (lari). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Noun

ლარი • (lari) (plural ლარები)
* (obsolete) treasure
* (obsolete) brocade

##### Declension

Notes: archaic plurals might not exist.

##### Derived terms

* სალარო (salaro)

#### Further reading

* Abulaʒe, Iusṭine (1916) Šah-names anu mepeta c̣ignis kartuli versiebi [Georgian versions of the Shahnameh or the Book of Kings] (Ʒveli kartuli mc̣erloba; 1)‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi, page 811
* Abu-l-Q̇asim Pirdousi (1934) Iusṭine Abulaʒe et al., editors, Šah-name: kartuli versiebi, ṭomi 2 [Shahnameh: Georgian versions, Volume 2]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: University Press, page 593

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

ლარი • (lari) (plural ლარები)
* (dialectal) Large and wide bench, used for both to sit and to sleep

### Etymology 4

From Old Georgian ლარი (lari), from Old Armenian լար (lar).

#### Alternative forms

* ლარო (laro)

#### Noun

ლარი • (lari) (plural ლარები)
* string made by animal's tendon or bowel
* ratline

## Old Georgian
### Etymology

From Old Armenian լար (lar), genitive լարոյ (laroy). The form ლარო (laro) reflects the o-stem of the Armenian.

### Noun

ლარი • (lari)
* string, cord

#### Derived terms

* ლარეანი (lareani)

#### Descendants

* Georgian: ლარი (lari), ლარო (laro)

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 268a
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 304

### Further reading

* Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “ლარი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 207b
* Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2014) “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - II [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - II]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XI, Tbilisi: Dedaena, pages 24–25
* Sardshweladse, Surab, Fähnrich, Heinz (2005) “ლარი”, in Altgeorgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (Handbook of Oriental Studies; VIII.12), with the collaboration of Irine Melikishvili and Sopio Sardshweladse, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 587b
* Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2001) “ლარი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis siṭq̇vis ḳona [Old Georgian glossary] (Kartvelologiuri biblioteḳa; 5)‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Pedagogical University Press, page 110a
* Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 70