Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σαβακάθιον ‎(sabakáthion)
• σαββακάθιον ‎(sabbakáthion)
• σαβάκανον ‎(sabákanon)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sáβanon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sávanon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sávanon/

Noun

σάβᾰνον • ‎(sábanon) n ‎(genitive σαβάνου); second declension

1. linen cloth or towel
   • Clement of Alexandria 190

Inflection

Descendants

• Georgian: საბანი ‎(sabani)
• Latin: sabanum
• Old Armenian: սաւան ‎(sawan)
• Russian: саван ‎(savan)

References

• σάβανον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σάβανον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• LSJ 8th edition