σαράβαρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Scythian *šarabāra; compare Persian شلوار (šalvâr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sa.rá.baː.ra/ → /saˈra.βa.ra/ → /saˈra.va.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sa.rá.baː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /saˈra.ba.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /saˈra.βa.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /saˈra.va.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /saˈra.va.ra/

Noun

σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ • (sarábāra) n pl (genitive σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων); second declension

1. loose trousers worn by Scythians
   • 408–334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, fragment 201:

     σαράβαρα καὶ χιτῶνας πάντες ἐνδεδυκότες.

     sarábara kaì khitônas pántes endedukótes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Daniel 3.27:

     ὅτι οὐχ ἥψατο τὸ πῦρ τοῦ σώματος αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ τρίχες αὐτῶν οὐ κατεκάησαν καὶ τὰ σαράβαρα αὐτῶν οὐκ ἠλλοιώθησαν οὐδὲ ὀσμὴ τοῦ πυρὸς ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς

     hóti oukh hḗpsato tò pûr toû sṓmatos autôn kaì hai tríkhes autôn ou katekáēsan kaì tà sarábara autôn ouk ēlloiṓthēsan oudè osmḕ toû puròs ên en autoîs

     that the fire did not burn their bodies and their hair was not burned and their clothes were not altered and there was not smell of fire on them

   • [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:

     σαράβαρα· τὰ περὶ τὰς κνημῖδας ἐνδύματα

     sarábara; tà perì tàs knēmîdas endúmata

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ; τῶν σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ tà sarábāra
Genitive	τῶν σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων tôn sarabā́rōn
Dative	τοῖς σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ροις toîs sarabā́rois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ tà sarábāra
Vocative	σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ sarábāra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: sarabāra, sarabala

Further reading

• “σαράβαρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σαράβαρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαραβᾱρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1307