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Georgia country - Origin of the name | | Georgia country - Origin of the name: Encyclopedia II - Georgia country - Origin of the name | | Georgians call themselves Kartvelebi (ქართველები), their land Sak’art’velo (საქართველო), and their language Kartuli (ქართული). These names are derived from a pagan chief called Kartlos, said to be the father of all Georgians. The foreign name Georgia, used in many languages of the world, is derived from Persian گرجی Gurji via the Arabic Jurj. Because the spelling was influenced by the Greek root geōrg- (γεωργ-, indicating farm ...
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Georgia country - Origin of the name
Georgians call themselves Kartvelebi (ქართველები), their land Sak’art’velo (საქართველო), and their language Kartuli (ქართული). These names are derived from a pagan chief called Kartlos, said to be the father of all Georgians. The foreign name Georgia, used in many languages of the world, is derived from Persian گرجی Gurji via the Arabic Jurj. Because the spelling was influenced by the Greek root geōrg- (γεωργ-, indicating farming; see also List of traditional Greek place names), the word has been mistakenly supposed to have come from a cognate such as St. George (the country's patron saint), or γεωργία (geōrgía, farming).
The ancient world knew the inhabitants of eastern Georgia as Iberians, from the Caucasian kingdom of Iberia — thus confusing the geographers of antiquity, who thought this name applied only to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar).
Gorj, the Persian designation for the Georgians, is also the source of Turkish Gürcü (pronounced "Gürdjü") and Russian Грузин ("Gruzin"). The name of the country is Gorjestan in Persian, Gürcistan in Turkish, and "Gruziya" in Russian and Hebrew (Грузия and גרוזיה, respectively), and whence 格魯吉亞 (pinyin: gélǔjíyà; cantonese: gaak3 lu3 gat1 a3) in Chinese. The Persian name is probably related to the wolf (gorg), the old cult of Caucasian peoples, hence Gorjestan - land of wolves. The Armenian words for Georgian and Georgia, respectively Vir and Virq come from Iberia, with loss of the initial i- and substitution of w or v for the b of Iberia.
There is also, in all likelihood, an etymological connection between the name Iberia and the historic province of Georgia called Imereti.
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