δραχμή
See also: drachma and drakme
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drakhmā́) – Doric
- δᾰρχμή (darkhmḗ) – Epic
Etymology
Typically derived as a verbal noun (holding) of δράσσομαι (drássomai, “to hold, to seize”). Beekes, however, argues that the existence of the variants δαρχμά (darkhmá) and δαρχνά (darkhná) means δραχ- (drakh-) and δαρχ- (darkh-) do not continue the zero-grade of Proto-Hellenic *dr̥kʰ- and instead derive from an otherwise unknown Pre-Greek substrate term.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /drakʰ.mɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /drakʰˈme̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðraxˈmi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðraxˈmi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðraxˈmi/
Noun
δρᾰχμή • (drakhmḗ) f (genitive δρᾰχμῆς); first declension
- drachma
- drachm
Inflection
First declension of ἡ δρᾰχμή; τῆς δρᾰχμῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δρᾰχμή hē drakhmḗ | τὼ δρᾰχμᾱ́ tṑ drakhmā́ | αἱ δρᾰχμαί hai drakhmaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δρᾰχμῆς tês drakhmês | τοῖν δρᾰχμαῖν toîn drakhmaîn | τῶν δρᾰχμῶν tôn drakhmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δρᾰχμῇ têi drakhmêi | τοῖν δρᾰχμαῖν toîn drakhmaîn | ταῖς δρᾰχμαῖς taîs drakhmaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δρᾰχμήν tḕn drakhmḗn | τὼ δρᾰχμᾱ́ tṑ drakhmā́ | τᾱ̀ς δρᾰχμᾱ́ς tā̀s drakhmā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | δρᾰχμή drakhmḗ | δρᾰχμᾱ́ drakhmā́ | δρᾰχμαί drakhmaí | ||||||||||
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First declension of ᾱ̔ δραχμᾱ́; τᾶς δραχμᾶς (Doric)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ᾱ̔ δραχμᾱ́ hā drakhmā́ | τὼ δραχμᾱ́ tṑ drakhmā́ | ταὶ δραχμαί taì drakhmaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τᾶς δραχμᾶς tâs drakhmâs | τοῖν δραχμαῖν toîn drakhmaîn | τᾶν δραχμᾶν tân drakhmân | ||||||||||
Dative | τᾷ δραχμᾷ tâi drakhmâi | τοῖν δραχμαῖν toîn drakhmaîn | ταῖς δραχμαῖς taîs drakhmaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τᾱ̀ν δραχμᾱ́ν tā̀n drakhmā́n | τὼ δραχμᾱ́ tṑ drakhmā́ | τᾱ̀ς δραχμᾱ́ς tā̀s drakhmā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | δραχμᾱ́ drakhmā́ | δραχμᾱ́ drakhmā́ | δραχμαί drakhmaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: δραχμή (drachmí)
- → Turkish: drahmi
- → Bactrian: δραχμο (draxmo), δδραχμο (ddraxmo)
- → Khotanese: [script needed] (draṃmaa-)
- → Latin: drachma (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (ZWZN /drahm/), 𐫅𐫡𐫍𐫖 (drhm /drahm/)
- Persian: درم (deram)
- Tajik: дирам (diram)
- → English: diram
- → Northern Kurdish: dirav
- → Ottoman Turkish: درم (derem)
- Tajik: дирам (diram)
- → Arabic: درهم (dirham)
- → English dirham
- Andalusian Arabic: الدرهم
- Spanish: adarme
- → English adarme
- Spanish: adarme
- → Persian: درهم (derham)
- → Ottoman Turkish: درهم (dirhem)
- Turkish: dirhem
- → English dirhem
- → Serbo-Croatian: dìrhem / дѝрхем
- Turkish: dirhem
- → Ottoman Turkish: درهم (dirhem)
- → Old Armenian: դրամ (dram)
- Armenian: դրամ (dram)
- → English dram
- → Georgian: დრამა (drama)
- Armenian: դրամ (dram)
- Persian: درم (deram)
- → Old Armenian: դրաքմայ (drakʿmay), դրաքմէ (drakʿmē), դրագմէ (dragmē)
- → Sanskrit: द्रम्म (drámma) (see there for further descendants)
- → Sogdian: [script needed] (δrγmh /δraxm(a)/)
References
- “δραχμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δραχμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δραχμή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- δραχμή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1406 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- coin idem, page 142.
- pound idem, page 630.
- shilling idem, page 766.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).
Noun
δραχμή • (drachmí) f (plural δραχμές)
- (historical) drachma (former Greek currency 1833-2002)
- (obsolete or historical) drachma (an ancient unit of weight)
Declension
declension of δραχμή
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | δραχμή • | δραχμές • |
genitive | δραχμής • | δραχμών • |
accusative | δραχμή • | δραχμές • |
vocative | δραχμή • | δραχμές • |
Coordinate terms
- λεπτό m (leptó, “cent”)
Descendants
- → Turkish: drahmi
Further reading
δραχμή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el