γαβάθα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin gabata or together with it borrowed from Semitic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɣaˈva.θa/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣaˈva.θa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣaˈva.θa/

Noun

γαβάθα • (gabátha) f

1. (Byzantine) bowl

Descendants

• Greek: γαβάθα (gavátha), καβάτα (kaváta), καβάθα (kavátha), γαβάτα (gaváta), γκαβάτα (gkaváta)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قاوطه (kavata), قاواطه (kavata), قواته (kavata, kovata, kuvata), قواطه (kavata, kovata, kuvata)
    • Turkish: kavata
    • → Romanian: covată
• → Old Armenian: գաւաթ (gawatʻ)
  • Armenian: գավաթ (gavatʻ)
    • → Udi: гамат (gamat)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գաւաթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 526–527
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 253
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “γαβάθα”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 322a