κάρβανος

• καρβάν (karbán)

Unknown. According to Kretschmer, it is from the toponym Qarbana in Egypt, whence the captive Danaans escaped to the Peloponnese. According to Hommel, this word is identical to κορβᾶν (korbân, “sacrificial gift”), which became an epithet for Phoenician merchants, but this is hardly convincing. Perhaps there is a relation with the name of the east wind in Cyrene, Κάρβας (Kárbas). According to Neumann, it is from Hittite (kureṷana, “foreign state that is not a vassal”).

κᾰ́ρβᾱνος • (kárbānos) m or f (neuter κᾰ́ρβᾱνον); second declension

1. outlandish, foreign

   Synonym: βᾰ́ρβᾰρος (bárbaros)

• κᾰρβᾱνῐ́ζω (karbānízō)

• “κάρβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάρβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάρβανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barbaric idem, page 62.
  • barbarous idem, page 62.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN