ablu (fem. abiltu)
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Variant: abalu
Meanings:
dry, dried
de:German: Deutsch trocken, getrocknet
Distribution: MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjectiveroot: ʾblI/ʾ; I/a (primae ʾaleph)pattern: PaRiSG-stem verbal adjective
Logogram: ḪÁD.DU
Etymology: Derived ＜ abālu
2Attestations
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) (2 kor of barley) 1 GUR ṭurû ab-lu-ú 3 BÁN muššu MBLET, 52: 2 “1 kor of dried (?) opopanax (?), 3 seah of muššu”. Uncertain; the vowel plene spelling is unexplained.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) nīnâ ḪÁD.DU * tasâk Sakikkû XXXI 14′ “you pound dried n .-plant”. Corresponds to 35′–39′ in Heeßel 2000. Diff. Heeßel 2000, 346 (“reißt du KUR.RA-Pflanze aus und zerstößt (sie),” interpreting UD-DU as È instead). new