Ἀραβία

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Arabia

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἄρᾰψ (Árăps, “Arab”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

(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 • (Arăbĭ́ā) f (genitive Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς); first declension

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 Arăbĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς tês Arăbĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾳ têi Arăbĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱν tḕn Arăbĭ́ān
Vocative	Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ Arăbĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ᾰ̓ρᾰβῐ́ᾱ Εὐδαίμων (Ărăbĭ́ā 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 (2006–2025)
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002

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