σάβανον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σᾰβᾰκᾰ́θῐον (sabakáthion), σᾰββᾰκᾰ́θῐον (sabbakáthion), σᾰβᾰ́κᾰνον (sabákanon)

Etymology

Probably related to or borrowed from Egyptian sbn (“(linen) bandage”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sá.ba.non/ → /ˈsa.βa.non/ → /ˈsa.va.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sá.ba.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ba.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.βa.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.va.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.va.non/

Noun

σᾰ́βᾰνον • (sábanon) n (genitive σᾰβᾰ́νου); second declension

1. linen cloth or towel
   • 150 CE – 215 CE, Clement of Alexandria 190

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σᾰ́βᾰνον; τοῦ σᾰβᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σᾰ́βᾰνον tò sábanon	τὼ σᾰβᾰ́νω tṑ sabánō	τᾰ̀ σᾰ́βᾰνᾰ tà sábana
Genitive	τοῦ σᾰβᾰ́νου toû sabánou	τοῖν σᾰβᾰ́νοιν toîn sabánoin	τῶν σᾰβᾰ́νων tôn sabánōn
Dative	τῷ σᾰβᾰ́νῳ tôi sabánōi	τοῖν σᾰβᾰ́νοιν toîn sabánoin	τοῖς σᾰβᾰ́νοις toîs sabánois
Accusative	τὸ σᾰ́βᾰνον tò sábanon	τὼ σᾰβᾰ́νω tṑ sabánō	τᾰ̀ σᾰ́βᾰνᾰ tà sábana
Vocative	σᾰ́βᾰνον sábanon	σᾰβᾰ́νω sabánō	σᾰ́βᾰνᾰ sábana
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Amharic: ሰበን (säbän)
• → Ge'ez: ሰበን (säbän)
• → Georgian: საბანი (sabani)
  • → Laz: საბანი (sabani) (or directly from Greek)
  • → Svan: საბა̈ნ (sabän), საბან (saban)
• → Latin: sabanum
  • → Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (saban)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: savãa
    • Galician: saba
  • Spanish: sábana (“bedsheet”)
    • Ladino: savaná
• → Laz: საბანი (sabani)
• → Old Armenian: սաւան (sawan)
  • Armenian: սավան (savan)
• → Russian: са́ван (sávan, “shroud”)

Further reading

• “σάβανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σάβανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette