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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to θόρυβος (thórubos) and κόναβος (kónabos). Perhaps onomatopoeic, but Furnée compares ἀροπῆσαι (aropêsai, “to tread”), which points to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ra.bos/ → /ˈa.ra.βos/ → /ˈa.ra.vos/
Noun
ἄρᾰβος • (árabos) m (genitive ἀρᾰ́βου); second declension
- gnashing or chattering of teeth
- (in general) rattling, ringing
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἄραβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄραβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄραβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄραβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄραβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄραβος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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