χάλαζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes from Proto-Indo-European *gʰelh₂d- (“hail; hoarfrost”). Cognate with Persian ژاله (žâle, “hail”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.laz.da/ → /ˈxa.la.za/ → /ˈxa.la.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.laz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.la.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/

Noun

χᾰ́λαζᾰ • (khálaza) f (genitive χᾰλάζης); first declension

1. hail, sleet
2. pimple, tubercle
3. knot, lump

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χᾰ́λαζᾰ; τῆς χᾰλάζης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰ́λαζᾰ hē khálaza	τὼ χᾰλάζᾱ tṑ khalázā	αἱ χᾰ́λαζαι hai khálazai
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλάζης tês khalázēs	τοῖν χᾰλάζαιν toîn khalázain	τῶν χᾰλαζῶν tôn khalazôn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλάζῃ têi khalázēi	τοῖν χᾰλάζαιν toîn khalázain	ταῖς χᾰλάζαις taîs khalázais
Accusative	τὴν χᾰ́λαζᾰν tḕn khálazan	τὼ χᾰλάζᾱ tṑ khalázā	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλάζᾱς tā̀s khalázās
Vocative	χᾰ́λαζᾰ khálaza	χᾰλάζᾱ khalázā	χᾰ́λαζαι khálazai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χαλαζάω (khalazáō)
• χαλαζήεις (khalazḗeis)
• χαλάζιον (khalázion)
• χαλάζιος (khalázios)
• χαλαζώδης (khalazṓdēs)
• χᾰλᾰζοφῠ́λᾰξ (khalazophúlax)

 

Further reading

• “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χάλαζα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χάλαζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χάλαζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χάλαζα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5464 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hail idem, page 380.
  • sleet idem, page 783.
• 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