# სერი
## Georgian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seri/, [seɾi]
* Hyphenation: სე‧რი

### Etymology 1

According to Ačaṙean, from Old Armenian սար (sar, “mountain”).

#### Noun

სერი • (seri) (plural სერები)
* hill

##### See also

* მთა (mta)
* გორაკი (goraḳi)
* გორა (gora)

#### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 183b
* Čubinov, David (1840) “სერი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 454b

### Etymology 2

From Old Georgian სერი (seri, “supper”), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ser- (“evening, night”). Cognate with Mingrelian სერი (seri, “night”), Laz სერი (seri, “night”), Mingrelian ო-სარ-ე (o-sar-e, “shirt, *nightshirt”).
Ultimately perhaps from Hurrian 𒊺𒂊𒊑 (še-e-ri /⁠šeri⁠/, “evening”), itself likely a modified semantic sense derived from Akkadian 𒊺𒂊𒊑 (še-e-ri /⁠šeri⁠/, “morning, the morning watch, the latest last hours of the night; later on, in the future”), corresponding to Arabic سَحَر (saḥar, “dawn”).

#### Noun

სერი • (seri) (plural სერები)
* feast

#### See also

* სერობა (seroba)
* ზადიკი (zadiḳi)
* ლხინი (lxini)
* სუფრა (supra)
* ქეიფი (keipi)

#### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սէր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 210a, deriving from Old Armenian սէր (sēr, “agape, love feast”)
* Čikobava, Arnold (1938) Č̣anur-megrul-kartuli šedarebiti leksiḳoni [Laz–Megrel–Georgian Comparative Dictionary] (Works; IV) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics, published 2008, pages 200–201
* Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 399
* Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 362–363
* Goniašvili, Tinatin (1940) “Leksiḳuri šexvedrebi čačnurisa kartvelur enebtan [The lexical interactions of Chechen with Kartvelian languages]”, in Enis, isṭoriisa da maṭerialuri ḳulṭuris insṭiṭuṭis aḳademiḳos niḳo maris saxelobis moambe (in Georgian), volumes V–VI, Tbilisi, page 607 of 575–632, compares Chechen суьйре (süüre, “evening”), Ingush сайре (sajre), Bats ფსარ-ლო̄ (psar-lō), Avar сордо (sordo, “night”)
* Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*śwĔrV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers

#### Further reading

* Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973) “სერი”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)]‎ (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 387
* Čubinašvili, Niḳo (1812–1825) “სერი”, in Kartuli leksiḳoni rusulis targamaniturt [Georgian Explanatory Dictionary with Russian Commentaries]‎, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
* Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “სერი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary]‎, Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 314

## Laz
### Alternative forms

* სერ (ser), სეჲი (seyi), სეი (sei) — alternative spellings

### Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ser- (“evening, night”). See Georgian სერი (seri) for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ(ɹ)i/, /ˈsɛɾi/
* Hyphenation: სე‧რი

### Noun

სერი • (seri) (plural სერეფე, Latin spelling seri)
* night
    სერი დიჲუ. ჩონა ვა-მიღუნან. ამა თუთა შკუ მითანამანseri diyu. çona va-miğunan. ama tuta şǩu mitanamanIt's night. We have no light. But the moon illuminates us

#### Derived terms

* ისერენ (iseren)
* ჰამსერი (hamseri)
* სერიგვერდი (serigverdi)
* სერიმჭუმალე (serimç̌umale)
* ჰამსერინერი (hamserineri)
* სერნდღალერიზ (serndğaleriz)
* სერი დიჲენ (seri diyen)

### References

* Adjarian, H. (1898) “Étude sur la langue laze”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume X, page 385
* Kiria, Č̣abuḳi, Ezugbaia, Lali, Memišiši, Omar, Čuxua, Merab (2015) Lazur-megruli gramaṭiḳa [Laz–Mingrelian Grammar] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Gamomcemloba Meridiani, page 833
* Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “seri”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎ (in Turkish)
* Marr, N. (1910) “სერი”, 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 183b
* Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı, Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan (1999) Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük / Lazuri-Turkuli Nenapuna [Laz–Turkish dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Akyüz Yayıncılık, page 307
* Rosen, Georg (1844) Über die Sprache der Lazen, Lemgo und Detmold: Meyersche Hofbuchhandlung, page 33b
* Tandilava, Ali (2013) “სერი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎, online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi

## Mingrelian
### Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *ser- (“evening, night”). See Georgian სერი (seri) for more.

### Noun

სერი • (seri) (plural სერეფი)
* night

### References

* Kajaia, Otar (2005) “სერი”, in Megrul-kartuli leksiḳoni [Mingrelian–Georgian Dictionary], online version prepared by Joost Gippert, Frankfurt am Main, published 2001–2004, page 1304