νάβλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Hebrew נֵבֶל (nḗḇel).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ná.bla/ → /ˈna.βla/ → /ˈna.vla/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ná.bla/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈna.bla/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.βla/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vla/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vla/

Noun

νάβλα • (nábla) f (genitive νάβλᾱς); first declension

1. nabla, a musical instrument of ten or twelve strings

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νᾰ́βλᾰ; τῆς νᾰ́βλᾱς (Attic)

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 têi 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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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