Arura

Arura (Ancient Greek: ἄρουρα, romanized: aroura) is a Homeric Greek ^[1] word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough".^[2] The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields.^[3] 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.^[4] This measures 2700m2 or 2/3 of an acre.^[5] The oldest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek a-ro-u-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough".^[6]

• Aruru, a Mesopotamian goddess associated with vegetation at some point conflated with Ninhursag
• 'Arura, a Palestinian village in the northern "West Bank".

• The dictionary definition of arura at Wiktionary

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