χώρα

• χώρη (khṓrē) — Ionic

Of uncertain origin. Beekes compares χήρα (khḗra, “widow”), assuming common derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind”), with original meaning "unoccupied (left-behind) space". This is far from certain, however.^[1]

Older theories take the word as possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate or other regional language. Has been tentatively and inconclusively compared with χᾰ́ος (khắos, “empty space, abyss, chasm”) as well as χατέω (khatéō, “to lack, miss, need, desire”); Beekes dismisses these connections as unfounded, particularly that with χατέω (khatéō).

χώρᾱ • (khṓrā) f (genitive χώρᾱς); first declension

1. location, place, spot (see Latin locus)
2. the proper place
3. one's place in life
4. piece of land: tract, land, field
5. country (opposite town), countryside
6. country, nation

• χῶρος (khôros, “space, place”)

• → Aromanian: hoarã
• → Bulgarian: хо́ра (hóra, “people, community”)
• → Classical Syriac: ܟܘܪܐ (kōrā), ܟܘܪ (kōr)
  • → Arabic: كُورَة (kūra)
  • → Old Armenian: քորայ (kʻoray)
• → Coptic: ⲭⲱⲣⲁ (khōra)
• Greek: χώρα (chóra)
• Mariupol Greek: хора (xora)
• English: isochoric
• English: epichoric

• “χώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χώρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χώρα 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
• “χώρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5561 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.
  • atarneus idem, page 49.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • estate idem, page 283.
  • ilian idem, page 414.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • picenum idem, page 611.
  • place idem, page 616.
  • position idem, page 628.
  • post idem, page 629.
  • province idem, page 654.
  • quarter idem, page 663.
  • region idem, page 687.
  • room idem, page 721.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • situation idem, page 780.
  • space idem, page 797.
  • spot idem, page 804.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • tract idem, page 885.
  • vacancy idem, page 941.
  • zone idem, page 997.
• 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
• χώρα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

χώρα • (chóra) f (plural χώρες)

1. (geography) main town or village
2. (geography) country, (especially) homeland, country of birth

   Synonym: πατρίδα (patrída)

   Η Σκωτία είναι χώρα που αποτελεί τμήμα του ΗΒ.

   I Skotía eínai chóra pou apoteleí tmíma tou IV.

   Scotland is a country that is part of the UK.

• κράτος f (krátos, “state”)

χώρα • (chóra)

1. second-person singular imperfective imperative of χωρώ (choró)
2. second-person singular perfective imperative of χωρώ (choró)