līlum

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *layl- (“night”). Cognate with Arabic لَيْل (layl, “nighttime”) and Biblical Hebrew לַיִל (láyil, “night”).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.lum/

Noun

līlum m (plural līlū) (Old Babylonian)

1. evening, night

   Synonyms: 𒆥𒋝 (līliātum), 𒈪 (mūšum), 𒈪 (mušītum)

   Antonym: 𒌓 (ūmum)

Cuneiform spellings

Phonetic
(genitive) 𒇷𒇷𒅎 (li-li-im)

Derived terms

• in līlēn (“in the evening”)
• līliātum (“evening”)
• līlâ (“in the evening”)

References

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