bābtu I
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Meanings:
city quarter, district
de:German: Deutsch Stadtviertel, Bezirk
fr:French: Français quartier, arrondissement
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PāSt (?)
Etymology: Derived < bābu I
2Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) awīltum ša ina bīt abīka ušbu aššūssa ba-ab-ta-ka! īdû kīʾamma ittallak CT 45, 86: 32 “the woman who has been living in your father’s house and of whose married status your neighborhood knew – shall she go about like this?” see RA 70, 153ff.; AfO Beih. 23, 120.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts PN … rabīʾān ba-ab-ti-šu ina emūqīšu dūram ša GN īpuš RIME 4, 659: 4 “PN, the headman of his district, built the wall of GN by his own means”.
Discussion
For the meaning “residential unit,” see Dombradi 1996, 245 with lit.