ὄργανον

From Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). Compare ἔργον (érgon, “work, deed”).

ὄργᾰνον • (órganon) n (genitive ὀργᾰ́νου); second declension

1. instrument, implement, tool
2. sense organ
3. musical instrument
4. the material of a work (e.g. timber)
5. the product of a work (e.g. lumber)

• Aramaic:
  • Hebrew: אורגנון‎ (ʾōrganōn)
  • Syriac: ܐܘܪܓܢܘܢ‎ (ʾōrgannōn)
• Greek: όργανο (órgano)
• Latin: organum
  • English: organ
• Old Armenian: երգիոն (ergion)
• Persian: ارغنون‎ (arğanun)
• Polish: organy
  • Ottoman Turkish: ارغنون‎ (erganun)
    • Turkish: erganun
• Russian: о́рган m (órgan), орга́н m (orgán)

• ὄργανον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄργανον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄργανον 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
• ὄργανον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• ὄργανον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • appliance idem, page 35.
  • implement idem, page 421.
  • instrument idem, page 447.
  • machine idem, page 506.
  • musical instrument idem, page 547.
  • organ idem, page 579.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • tool idem, page 880.
  • utensil idem, page 941.
  • vehicle idem, page 946.
  • work idem, page 988.
• 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