1. village (unwalled settlement) — A village, an unwalled rural settlement smaller than a polis (city). Frequent in the Synoptic Gospels describing Jesus' itinerant ministry through Galilean and Judean villages (Mark 6:6, 6:36, 6:56, 8:27, Luke 8:1, 9:12, 10:38). Multilingual evidence is highly consistent: spa 'aldea/aldeas' (village/villages), hin 'gaon/gaonvon' (village/villages), arb 'qaryah/quran' (village/villages, the broken plural form), kor '마을/마을들' (ma-eul, village), swa 'kijiji/vijiji' (village/villages with Bantu ki-/vi- noun class pair). The singular (N-AFS, N-GFS, N-DFS) vs plural (N-AFP) split is purely inflectional number with no semantic distinction. 28×
AR["القَريَةِ","القُرَى","قَريَةٍ","قَريَةِ","قَرْيَةٍ","قَرْيَةِ","قُرى"]·ben["গ্রামগুলি","গ্রামে","গ্রামের"]·DE["Dorf"]·EN["a-village","village","villages"]·FR["village"]·heb["כְּפָר","כְּפָרִים"]·HI["गअनवोन","गाँव","गाँव-में","गाँवों-में","गांव","गांव-के"]·ID["desa","desa-desa"]·IT["villaggio"]·jav["desa","dhusun","dhusun,","dhusun>.","dhésa","désa","désa-désa,"]·KO["마을","마을들","마을로","마을에"]·PT["aldeia","aldeias"]·RU["селение","селение,","селении","селению","селения","сёла"]·ES["aldea","aldeas","una-aldea"]·SW["-","kijiji","vijiji","vijiji,"]·TR["köy","köy,","köyde","köyden","köye","köye.","köylere","köyleri","köyünden","köyüne"]·urd["-کے","گاؤں","گاؤں-سے","گاؤںوں-میں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
κώμη, ἡ, unwalled village, opposed to fortified city (said to be Doric dialect = Attic dialect δῆμος, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to πόλις, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοις καὶ κατὰ κ. οἰκουμέναις formed of scattered villages, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II quarter, ward of a city, διελόμενοι τὴν μὲν πόλιν κατὰ κώμας, τὴν δὲ χώραν κατὰ δήμους Refs 5th c.BC+