Ἀραβία

See also: Αραβία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἄρᾰψ (Árăps, “Arab”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ra.bí.aː/ → /a.raˈβi.a/ → /a.raˈvi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ra.bí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.raˈbi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.raˈβi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.raˈvi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.raˈvi.a/

Proper noun

Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱ • (Arăbĭ́ā) f (genitive Ἀρᾰβῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. a peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
2. (broader sense) the region of West Asia where Arabic is or was spoken, extending beyond the Arabian Peninsula

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀρᾰίᾱ; τῆς Ἀρᾰίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀρᾰίᾱ hē Arăíā
Genitive	τῆς Ἀρᾰίᾱς tês Arăíās
Dative	τῇ Ἀρᾰίᾳ tēî Arăíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀρᾰίᾱν tḕn Arăíān
Vocative	Ἀρᾰίᾱ Arăíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ᾰ̓ρᾰβῐ́ᾱ Εὐδαίμων (Ărăbĭ́ā Eudaímōn)

Descendants

• Greek: Αραβία (Aravía)
• → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕙𐔰𐔱𐔼𐔺𐔰 (arabiya)
• → Latin: Arabia
  • Aromanian: Arabii, Arabia
  • → Belarusian: Ара́вія (Arávija)
  • Catalan: Aràbia
  • Corsican: Arabia
  • → English: Arabia
  • → Finnish: Arabia
  • French: Arabie
  • Friulian: Arabia
  • Galician: Arabia
  • Italian: Arabia
  • → Japanese: アラビア
  • → Latvian: Arābija
  • → Lithuanian: Arābija
  • → Old Dutch:
    • Middle Dutch: arabien
      • Dutch: Arabië
        • Afrikaans: Arabië
  • → Old English: Arabia
  • Portuguese: Arábia
  • Romanian: Arabia
  • → Russian: Ара́вия (Arávija)
  • → Spanish: Arabia
    • → Tagalog: Arabia
  • → Ukrainian: Ара́вія (Arávija)
• → Old Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
  • Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
• → Old Georgian: არაბიაჲ (arabiay)

References

• “Ἀραβία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἀραβία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἀραβία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G688 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,002