Ἀραβία

See also: Αραβία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἄρᾰψ (Áraps, “Arab”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ra.bí.aː/ → /a.raˈβi.a/ → /a.raˈvi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ra.bí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.raˈbi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.raˈβi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.raˈvi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.raˈvi.a/

Proper noun

Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ • (Arabíā) f (genitive Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ hē Arabíā
Genitive	τῆς Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς tês Arabíās
Dative	τῇ Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾳ têi Arabíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱν tḕn Arabíān
Vocative	Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ Arabíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓ρᾰβῐ́ᾱ Εὐδαίμων (Arabíā Eudaímōn)

Descendants

• Greek: Αραβία (Aravía)
• → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕙𐔰𐔱𐔼𐔺𐔰 (arabiya)
• → Latin: Arabia
  • Aromanian: Arabii, Arabia
  • → Belarusian: Ара́вія (Arávija)
  • Catalan: Aràbia
  • Corsican: Arabia
  • → English: Arabia
  • → Finnish: Arabia
  • French: Arabie
  • Friulian: Arabia
  • Galician: Arabia
  • Italian: Arabia
  • → Japanese: アラビア
  • → Latvian: Arābija
  • → Lithuanian: Arābija
  • → Old Dutch:
    • Middle Dutch: arabien
      • Dutch: Arabië
        • Afrikaans: Arabië
  • → Old English: Arabia
  • Portuguese: Arábia
  • Romanian: Arabia
  • → Russian: Ара́вия (Arávija)
  • → Spanish: Arabia
    • → Tagalog: Arabia
  • → Ukrainian: Ара́вія (Arávija)
• → Old Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
  • Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
• → Old Georgian: არაბიაჲ (arabiay)

References

• “Ἀραβία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἀραβία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἀραβία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G688 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002