νάβλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ná.bla/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈna.bla/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈna.βla/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈna.vla/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈna.vla/
Noun
νάβλα • (nábla) f (genitive νάβλᾱς); first declension
- nabla, a musical instrument of ten or twelve strings
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ νᾰ́βλᾰ hē nắblă |
τὼ νᾰ́βλᾱ tṑ nắblā |
αἱ νᾰ́βλαι hai nắblai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς νᾰ́βλᾱς tês nắblās |
τοῖν νᾰ́βλαιν toîn nắblain |
τῶν νᾰβλῶν tôn năblôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ νᾰ́βλᾳ tēî nắblāi |
τοῖν νᾰ́βλαιν toîn nắblain |
ταῖς νᾰ́βλαις taîs nắblais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν νᾰ́βλᾰν tḕn nắblăn |
τὼ νᾰ́βλᾱ tṑ nắblā |
τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́βλᾱς tā̀s nắblās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νᾰ́βλᾰ nắblă |
νᾰ́βλᾱ nắblā |
νᾰ́βλαι nắblai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- νάβλας (náblas)
- ναβλίζω (nablízō)
- ναβλιστής (nablistḗs)
- ναβλιστοκτυπεύς (nablistoktupeús)
Descendants
- → Latin: nabla
Further reading
- “νάβλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νάβλα 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