ἀπὸ τῶν Καρβανῶν τῶν κατὰ φοινίκην

Κάρβας, name in Cyrene for the wind Εὖρος, Arist.Vent. 973b4 ([etym.] ἀπὸ τῶν Καρβανῶν τῶν κατὰ φοινίκην): Phoenician word, acc. to Thphr.Vent.62.

Grammatical information: ?

Meaning: `outlandish, foreign';

Other forms: acc. - ᾶνα (A. Supp. 129 [lyr.], H.), κάρβᾱνος (A., Lyc.)

Derivatives: καρβάζειν, καρβαΐζειν, καρβανίζειν = βαρβαρίζειν H.

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Orient.

Etymology: Unknown. After Kretschmer Glotta 31, 250 from the place Qarbana (= Herakleion) in Egypt. Hommel Philol. 98, 132ff.: καρβάν = Hebr. identical with newtest. κορβάν, prop. `sacr. gift', which became a surname for Phoenician merchants; hardly convincing, s. E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 107. Perh. there is a relation with the name of the east-wind in Cyrene Κάρβας; Arist. Vent. 973b has: ἀπὸ τῶν Καρβανῶν τῶν κατὰ Φοινίκην. Phoen. acc. to Thphr. Vent. 62. Neumann, Heth. u. luw. Sprachgut 92f. from Hitt. kuriu̯ana-`independent'.

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