English → Georgian glossary¶

The terminology reference behind the Georgian translation of FiberQ — about 140 terms across structures, cables, splicing and slack, elements, network architecture, buildings, CAD drawings, selection, GIS vocabulary and the validation engine.

Provenance

Structured to mirror the English → French and English → Serbian glossaries in FiberQ's own CONTRIBUTING.md, and offered upstream in issue #43.

Definitions come from the maintainer's <extracomment> notes in the catalogue, from established Georgian engineering and utility vocabulary, and from the existing QGIS Georgian UI translation. The author is not a fibre practitioner — a terminology review by one would be welcome.

Canonical copy

The version submitted upstream lives at GLOSSARY-ka.md in the repository root. This page is generated from it, so edit that file rather than this one.

Georgian-specific conventions applied throughout¶

These are decisions taken once and applied to every entry below, so they are not repeated term by term.

Convention	Decision	Why
Capitalisation	Georgian has no letter case. English Title Case is not reproduced.	`Place Pole` → `ბოძის განთავსება`, not an imitation of the capitals.
Imperative menu entries	Rendered as a verbal noun (`-ება` / `-ვა`), not a true imperative.	Georgian UI convention (and QGIS's own Georgian translation): `ბოძის განთავსება`, not `განათავსე ბოძი`.
Latin acronyms	`ODF`, `OTB`, `TO`, `TB`, `PE`, `DWG`, `DXF`, `GPKG`, `KML`, `GPX`, `CRS`, `BOM`, `PostGIS`, `GeoPackage`, `XLSX`, `CSV`, `JSON` stay in Latin script. Only the descriptive part around them is translated.	Georgian fibre and GIS practice uses these acronyms in Latin; transliterating them (`ოდიეფი`) would be unreadable to the target user.
Adjective + acronym	The adjective is translated and precedes the acronym: `Indoor OTB` → `შიდა OTB`.	Matches Georgian word order and keeps the acronym intact.
Plural forms	Georgian has one plural form in Qt/CLDR. Every `%n` message shows a single `<numerusform>` in Qt Linguist.	No `%n` message needs two variants, unlike French.
Placeholders and case endings	Case suffixes attach outside the braces: `'{layer}'-ში`, `{path}-ზე`, `{count}-მა`.	Keeps the placeholder byte-identical (Rule 2) while letting the sentence decline naturally. This is the most frequent trap in Georgian.
Toolbar-width strings	Group labels reused 3–4× (`Cable laying`, `Drawings`, `Ducting`, `Routing`, `Selection`, `Drawing object`, `Placing elements`) are kept to one or two words.	One translation must serve a menu title, a button caption, a tooltip and a status tip.
GIS vocabulary	Follows the existing QGIS Georgian UI translation rather than inventing new terms.	A user runs FiberQ inside QGIS; two vocabularies for `layer` would be worse than an imperfect single one.

1. Structures and civil works¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Pole	ბოძი	The support carrying aerial cable. One word for both `Place Pole` (quick toolbar) and `Add pole` (Routing menu) — the English differs, the object does not.
Manhole	საკაბელო ჭა (short form: ჭა)	The underground inspection chamber on a duct run. Not `ლუქი` — that is only the cover. Decided (translator, 2026-09-09). Field Georgian also uses the Russianism `კოლოდეცი`; `საკაბელო ჭა` is proposed as the written-document term.
Duct / PE pipe	მილი (as a menu entry: PE მილი)	The buried distribution duct (Ø 40 mm). The English says `pipe` in one place and `duct` everywhere else — Georgian uses the single word `მილი` for both, per the translator note.
Transition pipe	გადასასვლელის მილი	The large protective casing (Ø 110 mm) laid where the route crosses under a road, railway or watercourse; the smaller PE ducts are pulled through it. Not an adapter between two pipe sizes. Decided; alternative `დამცავი მილი` (protective pipe) rejected — it loses the "crossing" sense the legacy term `prelaz` carries.
Ducting	მილგაყვანილობა	Noun naming the whole duct infrastructure (manholes + ducts). Toolbar group label.
Trench	თხრილი	Not currently a UI string; listed for consistency in future work.
Route	ტრასა	The physical path on the ground that cables follow. Critically not `მარშრუტი`, which in Georgian means a travel/transport route. `ტრასა` is the established Georgian engineering term for an alignment and is what a surveyor says. Also not a file path or a network path.
Routing	ტრასირება	Noun naming the group of route tools. The engineering act of setting out an alignment.
Breakpoint	გაყოფის წერტილი	A route geometry operation: splits one route line into two at the clicked point. Not a fibre fault. Deliberately avoids `წყვეტა` (break/rupture), which would collide with `Fiber break` below.
Span	მალი	The run between two supports. Standard Georgian engineering term. Not a bridge span.
Infrastructure	ინფრასტრუქტურა

2. Cables¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Cable	კაბელი
Cable laying	კაბელის გაყვანა	Gerund: the act of installing optical cable on the map. Reused 4× (menu title + button label + tooltip + status tip), so it must stay this short.
Underground	მიწისქვეშა	Adjective: laid in ducts or a trench. Pairs with `საჰაერო`.
Aerial	საჰაერო	Adjective: strung overhead on poles. `საჰაერო ხაზი` (overhead line) is the standard Georgian collocation.
Backbone	მაგისტრალი (the network: მაგისტრალური ქსელი; as a cable class in menus: მაგისტრალური)	The transport/feeder cable between main network nodes. Decided. `მაგისტრალი` is the noun for the concept; the menu entry uses the derived adjective `მაგისტრალური` so the three cable classes read as a parallel set — `მაგისტრალური / გამანაწილებელი / აბონენტური` — under both `მიწისქვეშა` and `საჰაერო`.
Distribution	გამანაწილებელი	Cable class: from a backbone node out to the street distribution points. Same adjective the Georgian power sector uses for distribution networks.
Drop	აბონენტური	Cable class, a noun in English (drop cable / subscriber cable): the final span from the street distribution point to one subscriber's premises. Never the verb "to drop" (`ჩამოგდება` would be badly wrong). Rendered as an adjective so the menu reads `მაგისტრალური / გამანაწილებელი / აბონენტური` — three parallel entries under both `მიწისქვეშა` and `საჰაერო`. Decided; alternative `აბონენტის` (genitive) rejected — it breaks the parallel adjectival set.
Fiber / optical fiber	ოპტიკური ბოჭკო (short: ბოჭკო)
Optical	ოპტიკური
Fiber break	ბოჭკოს გაწყვეტა	A fibre fault location — a real network defect. Kept lexically distinct from `Breakpoint` above, which is a geometry edit.
Capacity	ტევადობა	Fibre count / duct count.
Cutting / Cut infrastructure	ჭრა / ინფრასტრუქტურის ჭრა	The tool that cuts a line feature at a clicked point.

3. Splicing and slack¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Joint closure	ოპტიკური მუფტა (short: მუფტა)	The splice enclosure (fr `BPE`, sr `nastavak`). `მუფტა` is the universally used term in Georgian cable practice.
Splice	შედუღება	The fusion weld between two fibres. Corresponds to the French `soudure`.
Slack	მარაგი	The spare length of cable coiled and stored at a point so it can be re-spliced later. `მარაგი` = reserve/stock, matching the Russian/Georgian field usage `запас`.
Optical slack(s)	ოპტიკური მარაგი / ოპტიკური მარაგები	Singular on the quick-toolbar button, plural for the tool group and the map layer — the English makes the same distinction.
Terminal slack	საბოლოო მარაგი (explanatory form: საბოლოო წერტილის მარაგი)	Slack at a cable end (legacy `end slack`, internally `zavrsna`, drawn as a C coil). Decided. The short form is used in UI strings; the longer `საბოლოო წერტილის მარაგი` is available where a sentence needs to be unambiguous. Stays clearly distinct from `შუალედური მარაგი`.
Mid span slack	შუალედური მარაგი	Slack at an intermediate point where the cable runs through without being cut (legacy `thru slack`, internally `prolazna`, drawn as an S coil). Must remain clearly distinct from terminal slack — one word cannot serve both. Decided; alternative `გამავალი მარაგი` (through slack) rejected, though it is closer to the legacy name.

4. Network elements (equipment)¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Element / network element	ელემენტი / ქსელის ელემენტი	The passive optical devices (ODF, OTB, TO …), not map features in general.
Placing elements	ელემენტების განთავსება	Gerund naming the whole drop-down group. Reused as label + tooltip + status tip.
ODF	ODF	Optical Distribution Frame: the passive frame at the head end where feeder fibres terminate. Acronym kept — it also doubles as the layer name.
TB	TB	Terminal Box. Acronym kept; Georgian has no established equivalent.
OTB	OTB	Optical Termination Box. Acronym kept.
TO	TO	Termination Outlet — the subscriber-side optical outlet, the last element before the customer's equipment. Warning: this is an acronym, not the English preposition "to".
Patch panel	პაჩ-პანელი	The rack panel holding patch connections. Must stay clearly distinct from `ODF`, whose scope overlaps. Decided; alternative `კომუტაციური პანელი` rejected as more formal but less recognised in the field.
Indoor (OTB / TO)	შიდა	Adjective: mounted inside a building. → `შიდა OTB`, `შიდა TO`.
Outdoor (OTB / TO)	გარე	Adjective: mounted outside, on a wall or façade. → `გარე OTB`, `გარე TO`.
Pole (OTB / TO)	ბოძის	Adjective: mounted on a pole. One element, not a pole plus a box. → `ბოძის OTB`, `ბოძის TO`.
Joint Closure TO	TO მუფტაში	A TO housed inside a joint closure. Matches the Serbian `TO Izvod u nastavku`. One element, not two.
Change element type	ელემენტის ტიპის შეცვლა
Move elements	ელემენტების გადატანა

5. Network architecture¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Network	ქსელი
Service Area	მომსახურების ზონა	The coverage polygon, created as a buffer around selected cables/elements or drawn by hand. Decided; alternative `სერვის-ზონა` rejected — shorter and common in telecom marketing, but less precise.
Branch	განშტოება	`Branch info` shows how many cables/types/capacities pass a clicked point.
Relations	კავშირები
Latent element	შუალედური ელემენტი	A passive optical element (joint closure, ODF, OTB, termination box) recorded on a cable's path at a distance along it, between its two endpoints — data, not a separate drawn feature. "Latent" = intermediate/pass-through, not faulty or dormant. Shares `შუალედური` with `შუალედური მარაგი` (mid-span slack) deliberately: both are things recorded at an intermediate point along a cable.
Relation (optical)	ოპტიკური კავშირი (to confirm)	A named end-to-end optical link between two sites, that cables are assigned to. Not a QGIS layer relation (`ურთიერთკავშირი`). Alternative worth a practitioner's view: `ოპტიკური მიმართულება`.
Colour code (fibre)	ბოჭკოს ფერთა კოდი	The standard sequence of colours identifying each tube and each fibre in a cable (TIA-598 / IEC). Not a QGIS symbology palette — `ფერების კატალოგი` was rejected for inviting exactly that misreading.

6. Buildings — the `Object` trap¶

This is the single most important entry in the glossary.

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Object	შენობა	Throughout FiberQ, `Object` renders the legacy Serbian `objekat` = building / premises. Confirmed by the layer it writes to, whose fields are number of floors, basement levels, street and house number. It must never be translated as `ობიექტი`.
Objects	შენობები	Plural, used as a message-box title for the same concept.
Object in 3 points	შენობა 3 წერტილით	Footprint drawn from 3 clicked points; the 4th corner is derived.
Object in N points	შენობა N წერტილით	`N` kept as the Latin letter — it is the mathematical placeholder for "any number".
Object in N points (90°)	შენობა N წერტილით (90°)	Every corner forced to a right angle. Keep the `90` and the degree sign.
Digitized object (from selection)	დიგიტალიზებული შენობა (მონიშნულიდან)	Turns a polygon already selected in another layer into a FiberQ building.
Drawing object	შენობის დახაზვა	Toolbar group label (icon-only button, hover text). It means drawing a building, i.e. digitising a footprint. It does not mean a CAD drawing — see §7.

The clash to be aware of: Georgian QGIS translates the GIS term feature as ობიექტი. FiberQ's Object is a building. So in the Georgian catalogue: Feature → ობიექტი, Object → შენობა. This is correct but counter-intuitive and is the easiest way to ruin the translation by autopilot.

7. CAD drawings and images¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Drawings	ნახაზები	Plural noun: external CAD files (DWG/DXF) linked to map elements — documents, not something drawn in QGIS. Reused 4×, so it must stay one word.
Add drawing…	ნახაზის დამატება…	Attaches an existing CAD file to the selected element(s). The trailing `…` (U+2026) is Qt's "opens a dialog" convention — kept.
Link	მიბმა	Attach a file to an element.
Unlink / Clear … from	მიბმის მოხსნა	Removes only the link. Neither the file on disk nor the element is deleted — the Georgian must make that unmistakable.
DWG / DXF	DWG / DXF	AutoCAD file formats, kept as-is.
Image / picture	სურათი	The English uses both `image` and `picture` for the same thing; Georgian uses one word.

8. Selection¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	What it means in FiberQ
Selection	მონიშვნა	Noun naming the tool group. Toolbar-width.
Smart selection	ჭკვიანი მონიშვნა	Click-to-toggle across several layers at once, without changing the active layer.
Smart selection (Multiple Layers)	ჭკვიანი მონიშვნა (რამდენიმე შრე)	Brackets kept.
Select / deselect	მონიშვნა / მონიშვნის მოხსნა
Clear selection	მონიშვნის მოხსნა	Non-destructive — removes the highlight, deletes nothing.
Delete selected	მონიშნულის წაშლა	Destructive — permanently deletes the selected features from every editable layer. Sits directly above `Clear selection` in the menu, so the two Georgian strings must not be confusable. `მოხსნა` (remove/lift) vs `წაშლა` (delete) carries that difference clearly.

9. GIS and QGIS vocabulary¶

Follows the existing QGIS Georgian UI translation.

English	ქართული (proposed)	Note
Layer	შრე
Vector layer	ვექტორული შრე
Feature	ობიექტი	See the warning in §6.
Geometry	გეომეტრია
Polygon	პოლიგონი
Vertex	წვერო
Attribute	ატრიბუტი
Field	ველი
Value	მნიშვნელობა
Project	პროექტი
CRS / coordinate reference system	CRS / კოორდინატთა სისტემა	Acronym where the string is tight (table headers), full form in explanatory sentences.
Geographic CRS	გეოგრაფიული CRS
Projected CRS	პროექციული CRS
Reproject	რეპროექცია
Ellipsoid	ელიფსოიდი
Tolerance	დაშვება	The snapping tolerance in the connectivity rules.
Snapping	მიბმა	Same word as "link" in §7; contexts do not overlap.
Length	სიგრძე
Stored length	შენახული სიგრძე	The attribute value, as opposed to the length measured from the drawn geometry.
Import	იმპორტი
Export	ექსპორტი
Merge	შერწყმა	Geometry operation joining selected route lines.
Auto save	ავტოშენახვა
Undo	გაუქმება	`Undo (FiberQ)` → `გაუქმება (FiberQ)`. The qualifier and brackets are kept: FiberQ's undo history is separate from QGIS's own.
Redo	გამეორება
Shortcut	მალსახმობი	Keyboard shortcut.
Settings	პარამეტრები
Interface language	ინტერფეისის ენა
GeoPackage / GPKG / PostGIS / KML / KMZ / GPX / SHP / XLSX / CSV / JSON	(untranslated)	Format and product names stay as-is.

10. Validation, reporting and checks¶

English	ქართული (proposed)	Note
Validate project	პროექტის ვალიდაცია	The 14-rule validation engine (v1.4.0).
Validation	ვალიდაცია
Health check	მდგომარეობის შემოწმება	A different, older feature from `Validate project`. The two must not collapse into one Georgian word.
Rule	წესი
Issue	ხარვეზი	A finding produced by a rule.
Severity	სიმძიმე	The Error / Warning / Info axis.
Error	შეცდომა
Warning	გაფრთხილება
Info	ინფორმაცია
Report	ანგარიში
Export report…	ანგარიშის ექსპორტი…
Re-run	ხელახლა გაშვება
Run at	გაშვების დრო
Rules run / Rules skipped	გაშვებული წესები / გამოტოვებული წესები
Schema version	სქემის ვერსია
Recalculate lengths	სიგრძეების გადათვლა
BOM report	მასალების ნუსხა (BOM)	Bill of Materials. Decided. Georgian construction practice also says `ხარჯთაღრიცხვა`, but that is a cost estimate, which this is not.
Locator	ლოკატორი	QGIS's locator bar.
Optical schematic (view)	ოპტიკური სქემა
Color catalog	ფერების კატალოგი
Preview Map	წინასწარი დათვალიერების რუკა	Opens the FiberQ preview map over a PostGIS connection. Decided; the shorter `გადახედვის რუკა` was rejected as less precise. Length is not a constraint here — it appears in a window title and a menu entry, not on a toolbar button.
Hand over	ჩაბარება	`Errors found — not ready to hand over`. The delivery of a finished design to the client or authority — the word a Georgian designer would use, not a generic "give".
Structurally sound	სტრუქტურულად გამართული	The passing verdict on the report.
Issue (finding)	ხარვეზი	Consistent across `ValidationRules`, `ValidationPanel` and `ValidationReport`.
Publish to PostGIS	PostGIS-ში გამოქვეყნება	Note the case suffix outside the product name.

11. Validation engine vocabulary¶

Added while translating the ValidationRules context (batch 2).

English	ქართული (proposed)	Note
Endpoint	ბოლო წერტილი	A cable's start or end vertex. The connectivity rules are all about these.
Reference (verb)	მითითება	`Optical slack references an existing cable` — a stored foreign key to another feature.
Identity	იდენტიფიკატორი	The `fiberq_uuid` invariant. The field name itself is never translated.
Near-miss	ოდნავ დაცილება	An endpoint just outside the snapping tolerance: not connected, but clearly meant to be.
Self-intersecting	საკუთარ თავს კვეთს	Used for both `Line crosses itself` and `Polygon boundary is self-intersecting` — sibling geometry faults, so one construction serves both.
National grid	ეროვნული საკოორდინატო ბადე	Kept generic, as the English is.
Plausible range	გონივრული დიაპაზონი	Deliberately weaker than `დაშვებული` (allowed) — the English distinguishes a plausible numeric range from an allowed value domain, and the two rule names must not sound identical.
Allowed domain	დაშვებულ მნიშვნელობათა ნაკრები (in messages: დაშვებულთა შორის)	The value domain of an attribute.
Migration	მიგრაცია	The schema migration runner that adds `fiberq_uuid`.
Toolbar	ხელსაწყოთა პანელი

Column and schema names — never translated¶

fiberq_uuid, total_len_m, duzina_m, slack_m, duzina_km, duzina. These are database column names, including the legacy Serbian ones. Translating them would make the message impossible to match against the actual schema.

Open questions for the maintainer¶

List of latent elements — what does "latent" mean here? Resolved from the catalogue itself. The string carries an <extracomment> that defines it: a latent element is a passive optical element sitting on a cable's path at a recorded distance along it, between the cable's two endpoints — recorded as data rather than drawn as a separate map feature; "latent" = intermediate/pass-through, not faulty or dormant. Georgian: შუალედური ელემენტი. No maintainer input needed.
Object vs Objects — the English uses singular for one message-box title and plural for two others, for the same feature. Confirmed as an inconsistency in the English by the translator note; both will be translated as the same concept in Georgian. Flagging in case the English is worth fixing upstream.
Aerial Cable / Underground Cable quick-toolbar buttons are hard-wired to the backbone subtype in code, although the label does not say so. Should the Georgian label say მაგისტრალური explicitly, or mirror the English's silence?

Documentation issues noticed while preparing this¶

Not translation problems, but worth reporting separately:

docs/TRANSLATING.md lists 10 placeholders; the catalogue currently uses 34 distinct ones ({tol}, {crs}, {fid}, {expected}, {computed}, {bound}, {allowed}, {layers}, {rules}, {features}, {summary} and more).
The context table in docs/TRANSLATING.md predates v1.4.0. It omits ElementNames (12), ValidationPanel (21), ValidationReport (28) and ValidationRules (45) — 106 strings, more than a third of the catalogue — and gives FiberQPlugin as 105 where it is now 123. Totals: 293 messages / 306 translatable slots across 15 contexts.
fiberq/i18n/__init__.py _LANGUAGE_NAMES has no ka entry, so Georgian would appear in the language menu as ka. One line fixes it: 'ka': 'ქართული',.