χαλβάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Hebrew חֶלְבְּנָה‎ (chelbenah).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰal.bá.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰalˈba.ne/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xalˈβa.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xalˈva.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xalˈva.ni/

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Noun

χαλβάνη • (khalbánē) f (genitive χαλβάνης); first declension

The resinous juice produced by plants of the genus Ferula, galbanum

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χαλβάνη; τῆς χαλβάνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χαλβάνη hē khalbánē	τὼ χαλβάνᾱ tṑ khalbánā	αἱ χαλβάναι hai khalbánai
Genitive	τῆς χαλβάνης tês khalbánēs	τοῖν χαλβάναιν toîn khalbánain	τῶν χαλβανῶν tôn khalbanôn
Dative	τῇ χαλβάνῃ têi khalbánēi	τοῖν χαλβάναιν toîn khalbánain	ταῖς χαλβάναις taîs khalbánais
Accusative	τὴν χαλβάνην tḕn khalbánēn	τὼ χαλβάνᾱ tṑ khalbánā	τᾱ̀ς χαλβάνᾱς tā̀s khalbánās
Vocative	χαλβάνη khalbánē	χαλβάνᾱ khalbánā	χαλβάναι khalbánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

χαλβανίς (khalbanís)
χαλβανόεις (khalbanóeis)

Descendants

Latin: galbanum

References

χαλβάνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χαλβάνη 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

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