κάραβος

Ancient Greek

Origin unclear; the irregular suffix and phonetics suggest a Pre-Greek,^[1]^[2] Ancient Macedonian,^[3] Semitic,^[4] or Slavic^[5] loan. Also see Latin scarabaeus, carabus, Armenian քարբ (kʻarb); Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab) and قَارِب (qārib), likely from the same substrate source. See also Proto-Slavic *korãbľь.

κᾱ́ρᾰβος • (kā́răbos) m (genitive κᾱρᾰ́βου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾱ́ρᾰβος ho kā́răbos	τὼ κᾱρᾰ́βω tṑ kārắbō	οἱ κᾱ́ρᾰβοι hoi kā́răboi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾱρᾰ́βου toû kārắbou	τοῖν κᾱρᾰ́βοιν toîn kārắboin	τῶν κᾱρᾰ́βων tôn kārắbōn
Dative	τῷ κᾱρᾰ́βῳ tôi kārắbōi	τοῖν κᾱρᾰ́βοιν toîn kārắboin	τοῖς κᾱρᾰ́βοις toîs kārắbois
Accusative	τὸν κᾱ́ρᾰβον tòn kā́răbon	τὼ κᾱρᾰ́βω tṑ kārắbō	τοὺς κᾱρᾰ́βους toùs kārắbous
Vocative	κᾱ́ρᾰβε kā́răbe	κᾱρᾰ́βω kārắbō	κᾱ́ρᾰβοι kā́răboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κᾱ́ρᾰβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 642
^ Robert S. P. Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary
^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
^ “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.
^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “korab”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes II: K—Kot, Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego, page 472