Arura () is a Homeric GreekIliad 11.68 word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough".ἀρόω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields.ἄρουρα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus The term arura was also used to describe a measure of land in ancient Egypt (similar in manner to the acre), a square of 100 Egyptian cubits each way.Herodotus, 2.168, on Perseus This measures 2700m² or 2/3 of an acre."Household economics: Making ends meet" note 1. The oldest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek a-ro-u-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough".Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
Other uses Aruru, a Mesopotamian goddess associated with vegetation at some point conflated with Ninhursag 'Arura, a Palestinian village in the northern "West Bank".
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