ἄρουρα

• 𐠀𐠦𐠄𐠣𐠂 (a-ro-u-ra-i) — Arcadocypriot

From Proto-Hellenic *ároura, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥h₃-w-rh₂ (“cultivated land”); cognate with Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvárā). The sense ‘arura’ is a semantic loan from Egyptian sṯꜣt (“arura”).

ἄρουρᾰ • (ároura) f (genitive ἀρούρᾱς); first declension

1. cultivated land, a cultivated field
2. ground, earth
3. arura
   • Rosetta Stone :

     ἀπἔλυσεν δέ τά ἱερά καί τῆς λογιζομένης τῆς ἀρτάβης τῇ ἀρούρᾳ τῆς ἱερᾶς γῆς

     apélusen dé tá hierá kaí tês logizoménēs tês artábēs têi aroúrāi tês hierâs gês

     he also released the temples of the ardeb-per-arura tax on sacred land

• ἀρωραῖος (arōraîos) (hyper-Doricism)

• → English: arura

• “ἄρουρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄρουρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἄρουρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arable idem, page 38.
  • earth idem, page 259.
  • field idem, page 317.
  • glebe idem, page 361.
  • ground idem, page 375.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • mould idem, page 543.
  • plough land idem, page 621.
  • soil idem, page 791.
  • tillage idem, page 875.
  • tilth idem, page 875.