Balkh
Balkh, Hdt. 9.113, Arist. Mir. 833b14, Str. 11.8.9: the people were Βάκτριοι, Hdt. 3.102; or Βακτριανοί, Str. l.c.; cf. Βακτριανή, ἡ, Id. 11.9.2:—the Bactrian camels were famous, Arist. HA 498b8.
The corpus record
Βάκτρα
*baktra · τά
Balkh
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Where it lives
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Βάκτρα · Baktra Herodotus, Histories 6.9.4 (DIORISIS sentence 6227)
- Βάκτρα · Baktra Herodotus, Histories 9.113.1 (DIORISIS sentence 10070)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.