σαράβαρα

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From Scythian *šarabāra;[1] compare Persian شلوار (šalvâr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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σᾰρᾰ́βᾱρᾰ (sarábāran pl (genitive σᾰρᾰβᾱ́ρων); second declension

  1. loose trousers worn by Scythians
    • 408–334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, fragment 201[2]:
      σαράβαρα καὶ χιτῶνας πάντες ἐνδεδυκότες.
      sarábara kaì khitônas pántes endedukótes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Daniel 3.27:
      ὅτι οὐχ ἥψατο τὸ πῦρ τοῦ σώματος αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ τρίχες αὐτῶν οὐ κατεκάησαν καὶ τὰ σαράβαρα αὐτῶν οὐκ ἠλλοιώθησαν οὐδὲ ὀσμὴ τοῦ πυρὸς ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς
      hóti oukh hḗpsato tò pûr toû sṓmatos autôn kaì hai tríkhes autôn ou katekáēsan kaì tà sarábara autôn ouk ēlloiṓthēsan oudè osmḕ toû puròs ên en autoîs
      that the fire did not burn their bodies and their hair was not burned and their clothes were not altered and there was not smell of fire on them
    • [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:
      σαράβαρα· τὰ περὶ τὰς κνημῖδας ἐνδύματα
      sarábara; tà perì tàs knēmîdas endúmata
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Latin: sarabāra, sarabala

References

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  1. ^ Johnny Cheung, On the (Middle) Iranian borrowings in Qur’ānic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic, Leiden University. p. 25.
  2. ^ Kock, Theodor (1884) Comicorum atticorum fragmenta, volume 2, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, page 97

Further reading

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