ვირა

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ویره (vira, “heave away! pull away!; incessantly, continuously”), from Italian vira, the imperative of virare (“to turn”).

ვირა • (vira) (Latin spelling vira)

1. continually, always, all the time, on and on

   ვირა ბერე უ, ვირა ბერე დობღუ.

   vira bere u, vira bere dobğu.

   She kept having children, kept giving birth to children.

• Bucaklişi, İsmail Avcı; Uzunhasanoğlu, Hasan; Aleksiva, Irfan (2007), “vira”, in Büyük Lazca Sözlük / Didi Lazuri Nenapuna [Great Laz Dictionary] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Chiviyazıları, page 941b
• Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958), The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 711, page 466