ἄσβολος

English (LSJ)

ἡ (ὁ, Hippon.105), more Att. form for ἀσβόλη,

   A soot, Ar. Th.245, Alex.98.16, Thphr.Ign.39, Luc.Tim.2.

German (Pape)

[Seite 369] ἡ, att. = ἀσβόλη, Ar. Th. 254 (vgl. ψόλος); auch masc., Hippon. 110; vgl. Lob. Phryn. 113.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (ἡ) :
c. ἀσβολή.

Spanish (DGE)

-ου, ἡ

• Morfología: [masc. ὁ Hippon.185]
hollín Hippon.l.c., Ar.Th.245, Alex.98.16, Thphr.Ign.39, Luc.Tim.2, Gal.12.219, Moer.9.

• Etimología: De la misma raíz que ἄζω q.u. Dud. rel. del 2.° término c. βάλλω.

Greek Monolingual

ἄσβολος, η, ο (Α)
η ασβόλη.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἄσβολος: ἡ копоть, сажа Arph., Luc.

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: f. (m.)
Meaning: soot (Hippon.). ἀσβολόεν μέγα, ὑψηλόν (= ψολόεν Latte), μέλαν H. (for μέγα read also μέλαν; its final ν was read as υ, which led to the interpretation of υψολοεν as ὑψηλόν).
Other forms: Also ἀσβόλη f. (Semon.)
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Unknown. One compared words for ashes, dry, like Gr. ἄζω wither, Goth. azgo, OHG. asca ashes. But -βόλος would remain unclear; hardly to βάλλω. Fur. 154f considers it a substr. word, which is undoubtedly correct: note the rare group -σβ-. He compares σποδός soot, which is unexplained. He further points to σποδίτης (ἄρτος) bread baked in hot ashes, which is also called σπολεύς (Philet. ap. Ath. 3, 114e; corrected by Frisk to *σποδεύς!) For δ\/λ cf. λαβύρινθος, Myc. dapu₂rito-. Finally, 393 n. 21 he asks whether the group is identical with ψόλος soot (A.); I think that this is most probable (but not to ψόθος dirt); on σπ\/ψ Fur. 393.