κράμβη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually connected with κράμβος (krámbos, “dry; blight in grapes, when they shrivel”)[1], assuming that the plant was named after its shrunken leaves, but this is rejected by Beekes, who leaves the origin Pre-Greek[2].
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krám.bɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkram.be/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkram.bi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkram.bi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkram.bi/
Noun
κρᾰ́μβη • (krámbē) f (genitive κρᾰ́μβης); first declension
- cabbage
- μὰ τὴν κράμβην ― mà tḕn krámbēn ― by the cabbage! (μά + accusative: comic oath)
- Synonym: ῥάφανος (rháphanos)
Derived terms
- κραμβήεις (krambḗeis)
- κραμβίδιον (krambídion)
- κραμβίον (krambíon)
- κραμβίς (krambís)
- κραμβίτας (krambítas)
- κραμβοκέφαλος (kramboképhalos)
- κραμβοσπᾰ́ρᾰγον (krambospáragon)
- κραμβοφᾰ́γος (krambophágos)
Descendants
- Greek:
- → Arabic: كُرُنْب (kurunb)[3]
- → Aramaic:
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: כְּרַנְבִּי (kranbī)[4]
- → Classical Syriac: ܟܪܒܐ (kərāḇā)[5]
- → Coptic: ⲅⲣⲁⲙⲡⲏ (grampē), ⲅⲣⲁⲙⲡⲉ (grampe), ⲕⲣⲁⲙⲡⲏ (krampē)
- → Latin: crambē[2]
- → Middle Iranian: *karamb, *kalamb[6]
- ⇒ Ancient Greek: κραμβίδιον (krambídion, diminutive)
- → Arabic: قَرْنَبِيط (qarnabīṭ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Coptic: ⲅⲣⲁⲙⲡⲓⲧ (grampit)
- ⇒ Ancient Greek: κραμβίον (krambíon) ("decoction of κράμβη")
- Medieval Byzantine Greek: κραμβίν (krambín), κραμπί(ν), κραμπίον[10]
References
- Boisacq, Émile (1916), “κράμβος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 507–508
- 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, page 769
- Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 531
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 672
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 162
- Asatrian, Garnik S. (2011) A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects (in Persian and English), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 221
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 256
- Bartholomae, Christian; Salemann, Carl; Horn, Paul; Geiger, Wilhelm; Socin, Albert (1895–1901), Geiger, Wilhelm; Kuhn, Ernst, editors, Grundriß der iranischen Philologie [Outline of Iranian Philology] (in German), volume I, part II, Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, page 59
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կաղամբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 493ab
- κραμβίν in Kriaras, Emmanuel. (n.d.) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100‑1669) Vols. I‑XIV.] (in Greek), Online edition
Further reading
- κράμβη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κράμβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κράμβη (krámbē, “cabbage”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkraɱ.vi/
- Hyphenation: κράμ‧βη
Noun
κράμβη • (krámvi) f (plural κράμβες)
Declension
Coordinate terms
- λάχανο n (láchano, “cabbage”)
See also
- ανθοκράμβη f (anthokrámvi, “cauliflower”) (formal synonym of κουνουπίδι)
- γουλί(ν) n (goulí(n), “stalk of cabbage”) (mediaeval)
- ρέβα f (réva, “βράσκη η ράπυς”) (vernacular)
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