Pshauri Perkhisa

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Vadidot ghmerti vadidot

Adgilis dedao chvenio

Adgilis dedisa k’arzeda

Khe ala amosuliqo

Ts’vershi daeskha qurdzeni

Sach’melad shamosuliqo

Misi uch’melio ch’abuk’i

Udrood dak’arguliqo

Translation:

Round Dance Prayer Song from Pshavi

Let’s praise God

Let's praise the mother of locality¹

On the door of our mother of locality

A tree arose

It had grapes at its tips

Someone came to it for food

And his hungry youth

Was unseasonably lost

¹''Mother of Locality'' or ''Place-Mother:'' A diety in the pre-Christian Georgian pantheon, worshipped especially in the northeastern highlands of Georgia. 

Aragvo Miambe

Adek aragvo miambe

Ra dagabaraia

Shen p’irs aravin modgaia

Khel-p’ir ar daibanaia

/Ar at’irdaia bralada

Tsremleb ar chamoqaraia/

Translation:

Tell me, Aragvi

Get up Aragvi,¹ and tell me

What did she say?

No one came to your banks?

No one washed their face and hands?

Didn’t she cry?

Were tears not shed?

¹The major river of the eastern Georgian highlands of Khevsureti, Pshavi and Mtiuleti. The 112 kilometer long Aragvi was dammed in Zhinvali in 1986, forming the Zhinvali Reservoir which provides power to much of Georgia. The river eventually flows into the Mt'k'vari at Mtskheta. 

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Pshauri Mtibluri

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Gamotibe chemo tselo

Kadas gamogitskhobena

Moida saghamoeti

Gausvi raghas moeli

Pulni daberen bidzaisao

Kochorni tivas arai stibven

Genatsvle khach’o ts’qalao

Ram mogtsa magden dzalao

Verts ara iman gatiba

Vints khach’o-erbo ch’amao

Translation:

Haying Song from Pshavi¹

Hay, my scythe

They will bake Kada²

The evening has come

Hay! What are you waiting for?

Praise to the khacho^{3 -}

You give so much strength!

He who has not eaten khacho-erbo⁴

Would not be able to hay.

¹A highland in northeast Georgia. Read more about Pshavi here.  

²A traditional buttery cake

³Curded cheese

⁴A traditional dish – curded cheese cooked in clarified butter

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Jvaris Ts’inasa (Pshauri)

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Angelozebi                          

Dadgen mkharesa              

Gadmodgit pekhi               

Jvaris ts’inasa                       

Shen krist’e ghmerto

Dast’ere jvari

Akhal qoilta                         

Ertad shaqrilta                  

Dazde bech’edi

Shen krist’e ghmerto

Translation:

In Front of the Cross

Angels

Stand on one side

Step

In front of the cross

Jesus Christ

When the new flowers¹ come together

Bless their union

Place the rings on them

When they are united

Jesus Christ

¹Georgians refer to new couples as flowers.