malkum
Akkadian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Semitic *malk- (“king, prince”). Cognate with Arabic مَلِك (malik) and Biblical Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (mɛ́lɛḵ).
Pronunciation
edit- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈmal.kum/
Noun
editmalkum m (plural malkū) (from Old Akkadian on)
- king, prince, (foreign) ruler
- 9th century BCE, Royal inscription of Shalmaneser III
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Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “malku”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], volume 10, M, part 1, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1977
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “malku(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag