κύπρος

See also: Κύπρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Identical to Hebrew כֹּפֶר / כּוֺפֶר (kōp̱er, pitch, tar; henna), Aramaic כּוּפְרָא / ܟܘܦܪܐ (kūp̄rā, pitch, tar; henna), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔𐎗 (kpr, henna), Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀞𐀫 (ku-pa-ro, debatable plant), Coptic ⲕⲟⲩⲡⲣ (koupr, henna), Demotic qwpr (henna), Egyptian qwpr (a given name), Dongolawi kofrē (henna), all ultimately from Akkadian 𒇒𒌓𒀀 (kupru, bitumen, pitch) from Akkadian 𒅗𒉺𒊒 (kapāru, to smear, to daub on).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κῠ́προς • (kúpros) f (genitive κῠ́πρου); second declension

  1. henna (Lawsonia inermis plant and dye)
    Synonyms: κριμνός (krimnós), (assumed to be henna) κρημνός (krēmnós)

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Latin: cyprus
    • Middle English: cipre

Further reading

  • κύπρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κύπρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 212–213
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 218–225
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    Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2004) “A Botanical Snapshot of Ugaritic”, in Aula Orientalis, volume 22, number 1, Barcelona, page 122
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “kpr, kprt”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 448
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, pages 84–85
  • Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, volume Q (04.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, pages 11–12
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