Ὄβοδα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὄβοδα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ὄβοδα, χωρίον Ναβαταίων. Οὐράνιος Ἀραβικῶν τετάρτῳ “ὅπου Ὀβόδης ὁ βασιλεύς, ὃν θεοποιοῦσι, τέθαπται”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀβοδηνός ὡς Δαχαρηνός.

Oboda: a locality of the Nabataians. Ouranios, book 4 in his Arabika: 'where king Obodes, whom they make a god, is buried'. The ethnonym is 'Obodenos', as in 'Dacharenos'.

Text Details

Entry	#4
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 482.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	18
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Οὐράνιος (Ouranios)	Ἀραβικῶν · FGrHist 675 F 24

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὄβοδα	Oboda (Avdat) · place
Ναβαταῖοι	Nabataeans · people
Ὀβόδης	Obodas (Oboda) · person
Ὀβοδηνός	Obodian (demonym) · people
Δαχαρηνός	Dacharēnos (ethnicon) · people
Ὄβοδα	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q103187855 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	"where Obodes the king, whom they deify, is buried." (i.e., the place is named for King Obodes who is buried and worshipped there)
Morphological Composition	"the ethnicon Ὀβοδηνός formed like Δαχαρηνός" (i.e., the demonym is formed by the regular Greek suffix -ηνός, comparable to Δαχαρηνός)

Links

Place links	Oboda (Samian Ware Discovery Site) \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1855.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.