bāṣum
Akkadian edit
Etymology edit
Unknown, but compare Biblical Hebrew בֹּץ (boṣ, “mud, silt”), a hapax legomenon in the Bible.
Pronunciation edit
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈbaː.sˤum/
Noun edit
bāṣum m (from Old Babylonian on, Babylonian, Old Assyrian)
Alternative forms edit
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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