Etymology: < the name of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus (apparently < post-classical Latin Georgia (13th cent.)) + -an suffix, after Middle French georgien (c1357 as noun (in the passage translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 1), 1568 as adjective (in the passage translated in quot. 1585 at sense B.); French géorgien ). Compare post-classical Latin Georgianus , noun (13th cent. in British and continental sources), Italian georgiano (beginning of the 14th cent. as noun, a1363 as adjective, both earliest in plural †giorgiani ). With the use denoting the language (see sense A. 2) compare French géorgien , noun (1670 in this sense, in a French translation of the passage cited in quot. 1668).The name of the country is attested in numerous Western European medieval annals. Early on it was associated with the country's patron saint, St George, e.g. by Jacques de Vitry (c1220): hi homines Georgiani nuncupantur, eo quod sanctum Georgium, quem in praeliis suis contra gentem incredulam advocatum habent & patronum, & tanquam signiferum, cum summa reverentia colunt & adorant, & prae aliis sanctis specialiter honorant ‘these men are called Georgians, because they especially revere and venerate St George, whom they make their patron and standard-bearer in their fight with the infidels, and they honour him above all other saints’ (compare similarly quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 1). This view was perhaps helped by legends of the Christianization of Georgia, which portray St Nino (d. c335), the Apostle of the Georgians, as a kinswoman of St George, but in fact it reflects a folk etymology, the name of the country probably deriving < Persian Gurj (13th cent.; reflected earlier in Arabic Jurzān (9th cent.); compare Sassanian Pahlavi wročān or wirōzān (written wlwc’an ), denoting a smaller area in central Georgia < Armenian Vrac‘i native or inhabitant of Georgia (plural Virk‘ (6th cent. or earlier)) + an Iranian suffix). Some early modern scholars attempted to derive the name of the country from ancient Greek γεωργός farmer (see georgic n. and adj.), referring to supposed occurrences of classical Latin Georgī as the name of a tribe north of the Black Sea in Pliny and Pomponius Mela; however, the tribes so called were merely settled tribes engaged in the cultivation of land, in contrast to their nomadic neighbours. The Georgian name of the country is Sakartvelo (lit. ‘Land of the Kartvelians’), which is derived < kartveli (noun), denoting an inhabitant of the country (compare kartuli, the corresponding adjective); the name of the language is kartuli ena, lit. ‘Georgian language’.

Etymology: < the name of Georgia, one of the Southern states of the United States (see below) + -an suffix.Georgia was founded as the last of the original thirteen British colonies in 1732 and named after George II, king of Great Britain and Ireland (reigned 1727–60).

Etymology: < George, the name of several kings of Great Britain, especially of the first four kings bearing that name, who reigned in succession from 1714 to 1830 + -ian suffix.