bīnum

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *bin- (“son”). Cognate with Arabic اِبْن (ibn) and Biblical Hebrew בֵּן (ben).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.num/

Noun

bīnum m (Old Akkadian, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian)

1. son

   Synonym: 𒌉 (mārum)

Alternative forms

• bīnu (non-mimated)
• binnu

Cuneiform spellings

Phonetic
𒁉𒉏 (bi-num) 𒁉𒅔𒉡 (bi-in-nu)

Derived terms

• bintum

References

• “bīnu B”, 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) “bīnu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library