νάβλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Hebrew נֵבֶל (nḗḇel).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ná.bla/ → /ˈna.βla/ → /ˈna.vla/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ná.bla/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈna.bla/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.βla/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vla/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vla/

Noun

νάβλα • (nábla) f (genitive νάβλᾱς); first declension

1. nabla, a musical instrument of ten or twelve strings

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νᾰ́βλᾰ; τῆς νᾰ́βλᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νᾰ́βλᾰ hē nábla	τὼ νᾰ́βλᾱ tṑ náblā	αἱ νᾰ́βλαι hai náblai
Genitive	τῆς νᾰ́βλᾱς tês náblās	τοῖν νᾰ́βλαιν toîn náblain	τῶν νᾰβλῶν tôn nablôn
Dative	τῇ νᾰ́βλᾳ têi náblāi	τοῖν νᾰ́βλαιν toîn náblain	ταῖς νᾰ́βλαις taîs náblais
Accusative	τὴν νᾰ́βλᾰν tḕn náblan	τὼ νᾰ́βλᾱ tṑ náblā	τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́βλᾱς tā̀s náblās
Vocative	νᾰ́βλᾰ nábla	νᾰ́βλᾱ náblā	νᾰ́βλαι náblai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νάβλας (náblas)
• ναβλίζω (nablízō)
• ναβλιστής (nablistḗs)
• ναβλιστοκτυπεύς (nablistoktupeús)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: nabla

Further reading

• “νάβλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νάβλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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