Georgify

to make Georgian

Verb

  1. to make Georgian
    • Since that time they have been constantly trying to Georgify Abkhazia. - 1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:
    • Vostorgov, a conservative cleric with administrative experience in the Caucasus, argued that he could cite numerous examples "of the crudest efforts to Georgify the Abkhazians and Оssetians, I could point to tens of...
    • In regards to Adjaria, authorities in Tbilisi invested extraordinary effort into Georgifying names and prohibiting religious customs, causing the Muslim inhabitants of the region to increasingly identify themselves as...

Origin

From Georgian + -ify.

Forms

Georgifies Georgifying Georgified