Mingrelian

American  

[min-gree-lee-uhn, ming-] / mɪnˈgri li ən, mɪŋ- /

noun

1. a South Caucasian language spoken near the extreme eastern end of the Black Sea.

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Mingrelian British  

/ ˈmɪŋɡrəl, mɪŋˈɡriːlɪən /

noun

1. a member of a people of Georgia living in the mountains northeast of the Black Sea

2. the language of this people, belonging to the South Caucasian family and closely related to Georgian

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Mingrelians or their language

Example Sentences

In four years he embezzled 500,000 rubles, lived in the luxury of an Asiatic Prince, and according to the Moscow press "actually called himself the 'Heir of the Mingrelian Princes,' the hereditary rulers of Georgia."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sultan, so far as dress goes, might be taken for a Mingrelian gentleman, excepting, indeed, for the turban, whose ample folds in alternate colours of red, yellow, brown, and white, encircled his head.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

The cuisine at the lunch-counters embraces fresh trout from neighboring mountain streams, caught by vagrant Mingrelian Isaac Waltons, who bring them in on strings of plaited grass to sell.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

I now took a certain Greek into my service, who could speak the Mingrelian language, who occasioned me a thousand troubles, which it were tedious to recount.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

In a Mingrelian landscape we are struck at the aspect afforded by the numerous whitewashed cottages as they dot the well-wooded hills.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther