adānu

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Variant: edānu, ḫadānu, adannu
Meanings:
fixed date; time limit
de:German: Deutsch fester Termin; Frist
fr:French: Français date fixe ; délai
Domain: Time
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaSFrom roots i--gem. with /r/ as second or third consonant; concrete nouns designating the quality expressed by the adjective (?) + -ānSuffix -ān
Logogram: UD.DU₁₁.GA
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Aram. wʿd, wʿdʾ (waʿḏ, waʿdā) “appointed time or place” with denom. verb yʿd D “to be appointed”, see Sokoloff 2002, 539; cf. also the Arab. verbal root wʿd and jʿd “Versprechen geben” (VI “vereinbaren (v. Zeitpunkt)”), see Wehr 1985, 1415. Note perhaps also Akk. âdu “to take notice of” or wēdu “single, alone”.
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Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) UD.DU₁₁.GA : a-dan-nu CunMon. 49/2, 185 r. 10. Commentary Sakikkû VII 60′. new

21. Goal, planned moment

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [iš]tū šarrum ikšudu ḫa-da-an-šu [ī]rub maḫar DN Zimrī-Līm Epic iv 6 SEAL “[af]ter the king had reached his goal, [h]e entered before DN”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) adī ša ikšudu ḫa-da-an-šu šarrum u GN ukanniš aš-šēpēšu mê nādātim ištanattī Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 7 SEAL “until the king had reached his goal and had made GN submit at his feet, he would continue drinking water from waterskins”. new

22. Duration of illness

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ul iqbû a-da-mur-ṣi-ia paḫrat kimtu ana quddudi la-ma-dan-ni ORA 7, 208: 8–9 SEAL “they cannot declare the term of my illness; the family has gathered to bend down (from grief) before the time”. Sandhi spellings for adān murṣīja and lāma adanni respectively. See the edition by Oshima in ORA 7 and the commentary ib. p. 212. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [šumma simmu šiki]nšu ... a-dan-na irašši Sakikkû XXXIII 11 “[if the characterist]ic(s) [of a lesion] is (that) ... it has a fixed time(span?) of appearance”. new

13. Time of death

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) temmid ana marṣi ša issuḫu? a-dan-šú Rozzi 2021: 77 “you reach to the sick man whose fixed date has elapsed”. new

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