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|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῡ], ἡ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[a triangular musical instrument with four strings]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1341b1</span>, <span class="bibl">Neanth.5</span> J., Juba 73; of barbaric origin, <span class="bibl">Str.10.3.17</span>. (Aramaic [[sabbekhā]] (perh. not Semitic), with [[m]] inserted, as in <b class="b3">Ἀμβακούμ</b> = <span class="title">Habakkuk.</span> etc.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> = [[σαμβυκίστρια]], <span class="bibl">Plb.5.37.10</span>; with pun on signf. <span class="bibl">11</span>, <span class="bibl">Id.8.6.6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[an engine of like form]] used in sieges, <span class="bibl">Id.8.4.8</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Bito 57.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Marc.</span>15</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.Mech.27.7</span>, <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Mith.</span>26</span>.—Cf. <b class="b3">σάμβυξ</b>. [Penult. long in [[sambūca]], <span class="bibl">Pers.5.95</span>.]</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[triangular string instrument with four strings]] (Arist. etc.), metaph. [[scaling ladder]] (Plb. etc.; on the semant. motivation s. Ath. 14, 634 a).<br />Other forms: H. also <b class="b3">ζ-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σαμβυκ-ιστής</b>, f. <b class="b3">-ίστρια</b> <b class="b2">sambyke-player (m\/f)</b> (hell. poet., Plu.; after <b class="b3">κιθαριστής</b>, <b class="b3">-ίστρια</b>).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.?<br />Etymology: Orient. LW [loanword] of unknown source; s. E. Masson Recherches 91 ff. w. extensive meaning and criticism of earlier views (to Hebr. [[š ebākā]] [[lattice]] a.o.). On the secondary nasalisation Schwyzer 231 f. w. lit. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[sambūca]] (cf. W.-Hofmann s.v.).