NAHARIYA

A number of Phoenician-Lebanese-Israeli toponyms can be proven to have a Kartvelian origin with varying degrees of certainty. In particular, the historical Galilee contains a number of such names.

One of them is the Israeli town of Nahariya ([nagaria] in Russian transliteration), which has as its root the Georgian word "nagari" (ნაღარი), meaning "unplowed strip of field". So, Nahariya could well have been simply unplowed land. The Georgian ღ-letter represents fricative [g] sound and can be transliterated either as "g" or as "h".