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Arura or aroura (Greek: ἄρουρα), is a Homeric Greek[1] word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb "ἀρόω" (aroō), "plough".[2] The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields.[3] The term arura was also used to describe a measure of land in ancient Egypt (acre), a square of 100 Egyptian cubits each way.[4] The oldest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek a-ro-u-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough".[5]
Other uses
- Aruru is a surname of the Sumerian earth and fertility goddess Ninhursag.
- 'Arura, a Palestinian village in the northern "West Bank".
References
- ^ Iliad 11.68
- ^ ἀρόω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ ἄρουρα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ Herodotus, 2.168, on Perseus
- ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
Categories:- Greek words and phrases
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