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

Mingrelian language, the, 541 Minnetari, the, 342 Minns, E. H., 537 Minoan culture, 463 sqq.,

From Project Gutenberg

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

Perhaps a closer study of Mingrelian and Georgian will explain some of these peculiarities, for these and their cognate tongues must have had a wider range in the 7th and 8th centuries B.C. than they had later when clear history begins.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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