Ὄβοδα

Ὄβοδα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

place

Entry #4
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 482.15 | Billerbeck: Ο4
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 18
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Οὐράνιος (Ouranios) FGrHist 675 F 24 [Ἀραβικῶν]
Entities: Ὄβοδα (Oboda (Avdat)) [place], Ναβαταῖοι (Nabataeans) [people], Ὀβόδης (Obodas (Oboda)) [person], Ὀβοδηνός (Obodian (demonym)) [people], Δαχαρηνός (Dacharēnos (ethnicon)) [people]
Etymologies: 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)
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Ὄβοδα, χωρίον Ναβαταίων. Οὐράνιος Ἀραβικῶν τετάρτῳ “ὅπου Ὀβόδης ὁ βασιλεύς, ὃν θεοποιοῦσι, τέθαπται”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀβοδηνός ὡς Δαχαρηνός.

Oboda: a settlement of the Nabataeans. Ouranios, in the 4th book of his *Arabika*: “where King Obodes—whom they deify—has been buried.” The ethnic (gentilic) is *Obodēnos*, as (also) *Dacharēnos*.

Herodian overlaps