barbarum
Akkadian
editEtymology
editLikely borrowed from Sumerian 𒌨𒁇𒊏 (urbarak, literally “outside dog, wild predator”). Compare Arabic بَبْر (babr, “tiger”) and Classical Syriac ܒܒܪܐ (bbrʾ, “tiger”), not understood in their direct origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.rum/
Noun
editbarbarum m (plural barbarū)
- wolf
- (Standard Babylonian, astronomy, with determiner 𒀯) the name of one of the twelve stars of Enlil
Alternative forms
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Derived terms
edit- barbar uršim (scorpion)
References
edit- “barbaru”, 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) “barbaru(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Latin
editAdjective
editbarbarum
- inflection of barbarus:
Noun
editbarbārum f
References
edit- “barbarum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- barbarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.