Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐβένη ‎(ebénē)

Noun

ἔβενος • ‎(ébenos) f, m ‎(genitive ἐβένου); second declension

1. ebony tree, wood

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἐβενότρῐχον ‎(ebenótrikhon)

Descendants

• Greek: έβενος ‎(évenos)
• Armenian: էբենոս ‎(ēbenos)
• Latin: ebenus, hebenus
  • Catalan: eben
  • Ecclesiastical Latin: ebenius
    • Middle English: ebenif, hebenyf
      • English: ebony
  • French: ébène
  • Old Irish: ébind
    • Irish: éabann
  • Spanish: ébano
• Middle Persian: ʾpnws ‎(abnūs)
  • Persian: ابنوس ‎(abnūs), آبنوس ‎(ābnūs, ābenūs), آبنوز ‎(ābnūz)
    • Arabic: أبنوس ‎(ʾabnūs)
      • Spanish: ebanuz
    • Bengali: আবলুস ‎(āblus)
    • Gujarati: અબનૂસ ‎(abnūs), અબનૂરા ‎(abnūrā)
    • Hindi: आबनूस ‎(ābnūs)
    • Middle Armenian: ապանօս ‎(apanōs)
      • Armenian: աբանոս ‎(abanos)
    • Ottoman Turkish: آبنوس ‎(âbnûs), [script needed] ‎(abanoz)
      • Turkish: abanoz
      • Albanian: abanoz
      • Bulgarian: абанос ‎(abanos)
      • Greek: αμπανόζι ‎(ampanózi)
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܒܢܘܣܐ ‎(ʾaḇnūsāʾ)
• Old Armenian: եբենոս ‎(ebenos), ոպնիազ ‎(opniaz)
  • Armenian: եբենոս ‎(ebenos)

References

• ἔβενος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔβενος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἔβενος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἔβενος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ebony idem, page 260.
• 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
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “եբենոս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935