azādu
NEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
young male goat
de:German: Deutsch junger Ziegenbock
Distribution: MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculine
Etymology: Borrowed < Hurr.Hurrian Röllig 2008, 12f.: probably from NWSem. ʿazzatu (ḫazzatu) > Hurr. azzat/du.
2Attestations
MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) 1 mašak a-za-a-di BATSH 9, 56: 4 “1 hide of a young male goat”. Listed after urīṣu (MÁŠ) “male goat”.
MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) a-za-dumeš Iraq 70, 155 no. 2: 8.
Discussion
Male counterpart of fem. unīqu “young female goat”. See Ismail/Postgate 2008, 152; de Ridder 2021, 156.
For additional attestations, see BATSH 9, 190 (index) and TCMA glossary.