 The Georgian name of Kura is "Mt'k'vari" (in old Georgian "Mt'k'uari"), either from Georgian "good water" or a Georgianized form of Megrelian "tkvar-ua" "gnaw" (as in, "river that eats its way through the mountains").The name Kura was adopted first by the Russians and later by European cartographers.In some definitions of Europe, the Kura River defines the borderline between Europe and Asia.