Chikobava, Arn. (ed.). Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian Language: One-Volume Edition (K'artuli enis ganmart'ebit'i leksik'oni: ert't'omeuli). 1986. In Georgian.

ჩიქობავა, არნ. (მთ. რედ.). ქართული ენის განმარტებითი ლექსიკონი : ერთტომეული / რედაქტორი მ. ჭაბაშვილი ; სარედ. კოლ.: ირ. აბაშიძე, რ. მეტრეველი, არნ. ჩიქობავა [და სხვ.] ; საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია, ენათმეცნიერების ინსტიტუტი.
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Chikobava, Arnold (editor-in-chief). Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian Language: One-Volume Edition / editor M. Ch'abashvili ; editorial board: Ir. Abashidze, R. Metreveli, Arn. Chikobava [et al.] ; Institute of Linguistics, Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences.
Tbilisi : Main Scientific Editorial Board of the Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1986. 591, [1] pp. ; 30 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 60,000 copies.
Condition good+: boards clean with bright gilt lettering; endpapers with light yellowing; block firm and complete.

Arnold Chikobava (1898-1985) was the dominant figure of twentieth-century Georgian linguistics and the founder of Ibero-Caucasian linguistics as a systematic discipline. A founding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1941), head of the Department of Caucasian Studies at Tbilisi State University from 1933, and director of the Institute of Linguistics from 1950, Chikobava shaped Georgian linguistic scholarship across six decades and authored over five hundred papers and fifteen monographs. His international significance was secured by his successful challenge to Nikolai Marr's "Japhetic" theory, which had been adopted as Soviet linguistic orthodoxy: Chikobava's opposition, culminating in his direct report to Joseph Stalin in 1950, contributed to Stalin's famous Pravda article denouncing Marrism and effectively ended it as state doctrine. The Institute of Linguistics now bears his name. The eight-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian Language (1950-1964), compiled by approximately 150 scholars under Chikobava's editorship, is the foundational lexicographical monument of modern Georgian, containing nearly 115,000 words with systematic documentation covering ancient, classical, and modern Georgian. The present one-volume edition, published in 1986 by the Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia's editorial board with M. Ch'abashvili as editor, condenses the eight-volume reference into a single portable volume while preserving its explanatory approach. It appeared the year after Chikobava's death in November 1985, making it the final form of his dictionary to appear in his institutional lifetime.