ἆραι (arai)

ἆραι is an Ancient Greek form of αἴρω, meaning “lift, raise, take up”.

It can also be a form of ἀρά, “prayer; curse”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1297: ἢ πτηνὸν ἆραι σῶμ’ ἐς αἰθέρος βάθος,

Euripides, Hippolytus 1167: ἀραί τε τοῦ σοῦ στόματος, ἃς σὺ σῷ πατρὶ

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 9.13.3: … ι θάνατον, οὐχὶ ἧτταν τοῦ κρατηθέντος. ἔπειτʼ ἐκείνη μὲν λόγοις, αὗται δὲ καὶ μεθʼ ὅρκων εἵποντο καὶ προσῆσαν ἀραὶ τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν, οὐχ ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς ἀλλὰ πάντων ἀποδεχομένων καὶ συνομολογούντων· ὥστε ταῦτα γεγονέναι κυρίως …

All forms of αἴρω (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.