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  

/ 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

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Mingrelian

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

He was an aged Mingrelian, bald on his crown, but lank-haired, dreamy-eyed, stooping; he had a Robinson Crusoe type of countenance.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

Nor has the Circassian and Mingrelian east coast of the Black Sea.

From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx

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 Robert Kerr

The dresses of the people are as various as round Tiflis; the headgear of the Mingrelian peasants appears truly comic. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer

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