σαράβαρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Scythian *šarabāra; compare Persian شلوار (šalvâr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sa.rá.baː.ra/ → /saˈra.βa.ra/ → /saˈra.va.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sa.rá.baː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /saˈra.ba.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /saˈra.βa.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /saˈra.va.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /saˈra.va.ra/

Noun

σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ • (sarábāra) n pl (genitive σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων); second declension

1. loose trousers worn by Scythians

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ; τῶν σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ tà sarábāra
Genitive	τῶν σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων tôn sarabā́rōn
Dative	τοῖς σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ροις toîs sarabā́rois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ tà sarábāra
Vocative	σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ sarábāra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: sarabāra, sarabala

Further reading

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