φάρος

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to carve; split; cut; rub; pierce; strike”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *burōną (“to bore”) and Latin forō (“I bore”).

φᾰ́ρος • (phắros) n (genitive φᾰ́ρους); third declension

1. plough
2. ploughing

   Synonym: ᾰ̓́ροσῐς (ắrosĭs)

From φᾶρος (phâros).

φᾰ́ρος • (phắros) n (genitive φᾰ́ρεος or φᾰ́ρους); third declension

1. alternative form of φᾶρος (phâros, “large piece of cloth, web”)

Unknown.^[1] Suggested as being from Φᾰ́ρος (Phắros, “Pharos”), the name of an island on which the lighthouse of Alexandria was located (possibly from Egyptian), as well as the name of that lighthouse. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰar- (“log, board, plank”).

φᾰ́ρος • (phắros) m (genitive φᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. (Koine) lighthouse

• “φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Koine Greek φάρος (pháros), from the Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros), the island at Alexandria's port and its famous lighthouse. Uncertain.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ros/
• Hyphenation: φά‧ρος

φάρος • (fáros) m

1. lighthouse

• αεροφάρος m (aerofáros)
• ραδιοφάρος m (radiofáros, “radio beacon”)
• φαρόπλοιο n (faróploio, “lightship”)
• φαροφύλακας m (farofýlakas, “lighthouse keeper”)
• φαροφυλακή f (farofylakí)

• φάρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el