bāṣum
Akkadian
editEtymology
editUnknown, but compare Biblical Hebrew בֹּץ (boṣ, “mud, silt”), a hapax legomenon in the Bible.
Pronunciation
edit- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈbaː.sˤum/
Noun
editbāṣum m (from Old Babylonian on, Babylonian, Old Assyrian)
Alternative forms
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Derived terms
edit- bāṣiš (“like sand”)
References
edit- “baṣṣu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “bāṣu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag