abšaḫuru
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Variant: šanapšaḫurru (?), absaḫurru
Meanings:
(a fish)
de:German: Deutsch (ein Fisch)
fr:French: Français (un poisson)
ar:Arabic: العربية (نوع من الأسماك)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Fish and aquatic animals; animals
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian ab-suḫur ePSD₂ (cf. Lieberman 1977, 132 fn. 368).
1 Lexical
MA-LexMA-Lex: Middle Assyrian lexical texts [áb]-suḫurku₆ = ab-sa-⸢ḫur⸣-[ru] KAL 8, 91: 11 (Hh) DCCLT. (MSL 8/2, 95 G).
1Referring to a snake
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ab-ša-ḫ[u?]-ra-am (∥ ša-⸢nap⸣-ša-ḫu-ra-am) barmam īnī AML, 110: 3 SEAL “a. of speckled eyes”. The variant šanapšaḫurru (?) appears to be erroneous (as result of mishearing?) and is currently unexplained (see the comment by Finkel 1999, 227).
Discussion
In UET 6/2, 398: 13 (cit. AHw. 1541b), read nūnu rūqūtu ìs*-sa-ḫu-ru ana DN “the distant fish kept turning to DN” (eBL).
External Resources
Sumerian áb-suḫur in the DCCLT Glossary
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