Dance & celebration
Bazgirulai
ბაზგირულაჲ
A dance-song text that names the valley’s villages and turns distance from Badzgireti into longing.
Lyrics & translation
Explore song Wedding & ritual
Gameiare, zalo
გამეჲარე, ზალო
A brief bridal welcome that names the relationships in a new household.
Lyrics & translation
About this song
Shioshvili prints this five-line welcome in her discussion of songs sung when a bride arrives at the groom’s home. It names the father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law as the bride’s new family. The neighbouring commentary is attributed to Ilyas Altun of Kokbereti, a locality of Chikhiskhevi.
The passage sits beside several Gelino-related wedding texts. The book also compares examples from Machakhela and other parts of Adjara. Those comparisons help explain the ritual setting, but they should not all be merged into one supposedly complete local lyric. This entry uses the first line as its title to identify the exact short text.
The words document a historical welcome and its family vocabulary. They are presented with source context, rather than as instructions for present-day brides. No modern song recording called Gelino is attached as though it necessarily performed these same five lines.
Recordings
This entry documents a written source. A matching playable recording has not yet been linked.
Lyrics & translation
Complete five-line text as printed in Shioshvili (2016), p. 102, citing Shavsheti (2011), p. 491. Dialect spellings are retained. Zalo is a form of address for a sister-in-law/new bride in this context. English and Turkish are editorial meaning translations, not a transcription or translation of a linked modern recording.
Georgian originalEnglish translation
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გამეჲარე, ზალო, გამეჲარე!
მამამთილი ბაბოჲა,
დედამთილი ანაჲა,
მაზლი ზმა არი,
მული და არი!
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Come through, sister-in-law, come through!
Your father-in-law is a father,
Your mother-in-law is a mother,
Your brother-in-law is a brother,
Your sister-in-law is a sister!
Sources & credits
- Tina Shioshvili, Shavshuri Folklori (2016) — pp. 102–104; the five-line text on p. 102
- Paghava et al., Shavsheti (2011) — p. 491, as cited by Shioshvili
- Translations prepared for the Imerkhevi Digital Project — Editorial meaning translations of the printed Georgian text
The exact recording date is not supplied in this passage. The publication dates are given instead. A matching audio or video may be added later without changing the identity of this text version.