βοᾶν (boan)

βοᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of βοάω, meaning “shout, cry out”.

It can also be a form of βοή, “shout, cry”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 98 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.9.63: Ἦν δὲ καὶ μεγαλοφωνότατος, ὥστε τὸν γυμνασίαρχον προσπέμψαι αὐτῷ μὴ οὕτω βοᾶν· τὸν δὲ εἰπεῖν, καὶ δὸς μέτρον φωνῆς. ἔνθεν εὐστόχως ἑλόντα ἀμείψασθαι· φάναι γάρ, μέτρον ἔχεις τοὺς ἀκούοντα …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.99: πεζὸς ἐν ἀλλοτρίαισι βοὰν ἐστάσατο κώμαις,

Euripides, Hecuba 1091: ἰὼ Ἀχαιοί. — ἰὼ Ἀτρεῖδαι. — βοὰν βοὰν ἀυτῶ, βοάν.

All forms of βοάω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.