Cognate with Arabic أَنْبَأَ (ʔanbaʔa, “to inform, announce”) and Biblical Hebrew נִבֵּא (nibbeʾ, “to prophesy”).
nabûm (G, i, durative inabbi, perfect ittabi, preterite ibbi, imperative ibi) (Old Akkadian, Babylonian, Mari)
- (with double accusative) to name, nominate
- to invoke
- to summon, call, appoint
- to proclaim, command, make known
Conjugation
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Infinitive
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nabûm
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Participle
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nābûm
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Adjective
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nabûm
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Active
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Durative
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Perfect
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Preterite
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Imperative
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1.sg
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anabbi
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attabi
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abbi
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lubbi
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2.sg
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m
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tanabbi
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tattabi
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tabbi
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nibi
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f
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tanabbî
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tattabî
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tabbî
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nibî
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3.sg
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inabbi
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ittabi
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ibbi
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libbi
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1.pl
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ninabbi
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nittabi
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nibbi
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i nibbi
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2.pl
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tanabbiā
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tattabiā
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tabbiā
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nibiā
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3.pl
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m
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inabbû
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ittabû
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ibbû
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libbû
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f
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inabbiā
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ittabiā
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ibbiā
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libbiā
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This table gives Old Babylonian inflection. For conjugation in other dialects, see Appendix:Akkadian dialectal conjugation.
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Cuneiform spellings
Logograms
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Phonetic
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- “nabû A”, 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) “nabû(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag