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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: name of a Phoenician lyre with 10 or 12 strings (Soph.Fr. 849 [uncertain conj.], LXX).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ας</b> m. (com., Str.), also [[ναῦλα]] f. (Aq., Sm.), <b class="b3">-ον</b> n. (H.).<br />Derivatives: [[ναβλίζω]] = [[ψάλλω]] (Gloss.) with [[ναβλιστής]] m. <b class="b2">player of a n.</b> (Euph.), also <b class="b3">ναβλιστο-κτυπεύς</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Man. 4, 185), for <b class="b3">*ναβλο-κτύπος</b> (through cross and with formally enlarging <b class="b3">-ευς</b>), f. [[ναβλίστρια]] (Maced.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.<br />Etymology: Like the instrument the name was prob. also Phoenician; cf. Hebr. [[nēbel]] name of a harp; more in Lewy Fremdw. 161. The word seems to have meant originally [[vase]]. DELG speaks of the harp as "avec son mouvement arrondi". E. Masson Emprunts 67 - 69; Meurgon, Melanges Carcopino 518 - 522. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[nablium]], [[nablum]], s. W.-Hofmann s.v. Etruscan has [[naplan]], designating a cup.