μανδραγόρας

Ancient Greek

Unexplained. Maybe from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”), but it could be a folk-etymological adaptation of a foreign word.

μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς • (măndrăgórās) m (genitive μᾰνδρᾰγόρου); first declension

First declension of ὁ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς; τοῦ μᾰνδρᾰγόρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς ho măndrăgórās	τὼ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ tṑ măndrăgórā	οἱ μᾰνδρᾰγόραι hoi măndrăgórai
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰνδρᾰγόρου toû măndrăgórou	τοῖν μᾰνδρᾰγόραιν toîn măndrăgórain	τῶν μᾰνδρᾰγορῶν tôn măndrăgorôn
Dative	τῷ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾳ tōî măndrăgórāi	τοῖν μᾰνδρᾰγόραιν toîn măndrăgórain	τοῖς μᾰνδρᾰγόραις toîs măndrăgórais
Accusative	τὸν μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱν tòn măndrăgórān	τὼ μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ tṑ măndrăgórā	τοὺς μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱς toùs măndrăgórās
Vocative	μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ măndrăgórā	μᾰνδρᾰγόρᾱ măndrăgórā	μᾰνδρᾰγόραι măndrăgórai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Translingual: Mandragora
→ Classical Syriac: ܡܢܕܪܓܪܘܢ (mndrgrwn)
→ Latin: mandragorās (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Armenian: մանրագոր (manragor)
- → Armenian: մանրագոր (manragor) (learned)
→ Old Church Slavonic: манъдрагора (manŭdragora)
- → Romanian: mandragoră
→ Old Georgian: მანდრაგორი (mandragori), მანდრაგური (mandraguri), მარდაგონი (mardagoni)
- ⇒ Georgian: მანდრაგორა (mandragora)