Cognate with Arabic نَسَخَ (nasaḵa, “to abolish, delete”) and Biblical Hebrew נָסַח (nɔsáḥ, “to pull, tear away”).
nasāḫum (G, a-u, durative inassaḫ, perfect ittasaḫ, preterite issuḫ, imperative usuḫ) (from Old Akkadian on)
- to tear out, pull out, uproot, dig up
- to remove, take away, exterminate, wipe out, clear out, pull off, eradicate
- to reject, expel, deport, transfer, remove, evacuate
- to withdraw (money)
- to raise (taxes)
- (Old Babylonian, mathematics) to subtract
- to set out, depart
- to pass, elapse (time)
Conjugation
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Infinitive
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nasāḫum
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Participle
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nāsiḫum
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Adjective
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nasḫum
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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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anassaḫ
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attasaḫ
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assuḫ
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lussuḫ
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2.sg
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m
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tanassaḫ
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tattasaḫ
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tassuḫ
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usuḫ
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f
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tanassaḫī
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tattasḫī
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tassuḫī
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usḫī
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3.sg
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inassaḫ
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ittasaḫ
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issuḫ
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lissuḫ
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1.pl
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ninassaḫ
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nittasaḫ
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nissuḫ
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i nissuḫ
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2.pl
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tanassaḫā
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tattasḫā
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tassuḫā
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usḫā
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3.pl
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m
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inassaḫū
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ittasḫū
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issuḫū
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lissuḫū
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f
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inassaḫā
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ittasḫā
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issuḫā
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lissuḫā
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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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- 𒈾𒍝𒄷𒌝 (na-sa₃-ḫu-um)
- 𒈾𒊓𒄷 (na-sa-ḫu)
- 𒈾𒃻𒄷 (na-ša₂-ḫu)
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- “nasaḫu”, 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) “nasaḫu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
- Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, page 610