φάρος

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to carve; split; cut; rub; pierce; strike”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *burōną (“to bore”) and Latin forō (“I bore”).

φᾰ́ρος • (pháros) n (genitive φάρεος or φᾰ́ρους); third declension

1. plough
2. ploughing

   Synonym: ἄροσις (árosis)

• ἄφᾰρος (ápharos, “unploughed”)
• ἀφᾰ́ρωτος (aphárōtos, “unploughed”)
• φᾰράω (pharáō), φᾰρόω (pharóō, “plough”)

See φᾶρος (phâros).

φάρος • (pháros) n (genitive φάρους); third declension

1. Later form of φᾶρος (phâros): "large piece of cloth, web"

• φαροφόρος (pharophóros, “clad in leathern coats -of sheep-”)

Unknown.^[1] Has been suggested as from Φᾰ́ρος (Pháros, “Pharos”), the name of an island on which the lighthouse of Alexandria was located, possibly from Egyptian, as well as the name of that lighthouse. Alternately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰar- (“log, board, plank”).

φάρος • (pháros) m

1. lighthouse

• “φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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

From Koine Greek φάρος (pháros), from the Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros), the island at Alexandria's port and its famous lighthouse. Uncertain.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/
• Hyphenation: φά‧ρος

φάρος • (fáros) m

1. lighthouse

• αεροφάρος m (aerofáros)
• ραδιοφάρος m (radiofáros, “radio beacon”)
• φαρόπλοιο n (faróploio, “lightship”)
• φαροφύλακας m (farofýlakas, “lighthouse keeper”)
• φαροφυλακή f (farofylakí)

• φάρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el