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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Latin gabata or together with it borrowed from Semitic.
Pronunciation
Noun
γαβάθα • (gabátha) f
- (Byzantine) bowl
Descendants
- Greek: γαβάθα (gavátha), καβάτα (kaváta), καβάθα (kavátha), γαβάτα (gaváta), γκαβάτα (gkaváta)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاوطه (kavata), قاواطه (kavata), قواته (kavata, kovata, kuvata), قواطه (kavata, kovata, kuvata), قواته (kavata)
- → Old Armenian: գաւաթ (gawatʻ)
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գաւաթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 526–527
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 253
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “γαβάθα”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 322a