1) Georgian surname 
[noble family] The Japaridze (ჯაფარიძე) is a Georgian noble family known from c. 1400. A family legend recorded by Prince Ioann of Georgia in his genealogical treatise holds it that the Jap`aridze descended from the Mongol (`Chingisid`) officer in Racha called Jap`ar whose scions later converted to Georgian Orthodox Christia...