EUPHRATES

The cradle of the Mesopotamian civilization, the Euphrates River, is called "Firat" in Turkish, and "Furat" in Arabic. Accordingly, the "fur + at" construction from the Zan point of view represents "the land of fur(a)". "Fura" (ფურა) in Kartvelian means "cow". The upper reaches of the Euphrates are indeed famous for their beautiful pastures. It is funny that someone named Giorgio Buccellati in his article Growth of Nomadism (1990) also calls the middle Euphrates "the land of pastures", hardly knowing about the Kartvelian interpretation of "Furat".