basāmu

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Meanings:
to please
de:German: Deutsch (jmd.) erfreuen
fr:French: Français réjouir
ar:Arabic: العربية سر
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts, MB-Bo.MB-Bo.: Middle Babylonian texts from Boğazköy/Hattuša (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: bsmIII – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Inherited
1 Lexical

MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) bu-sú-mu (var. bu-uš-šu-u ) = a-aš-šu ). StBoT 7, 19 iv 12 (Erim.) DCCLT. After Otten/von Soden 1968, 22, both equations, bussumu “pleasant” and bušû “goods”, reflect two mngs. of Hitt. aššu-. new

11. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) awīlē bi-si-im-ma warkānum dīnam awīlū iqabbûnim AbB 14, 41: 14 ARCHIBAB “humour the gentlemen, so that later the gentlemen will pronounce a favorable judgement”. See Veenhof, ib. p. 206. new

32. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive): To please

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) awâtim nu-ba-ás-si-im-ši-na-ti-i-ma banīʾā AbB 8, 69: 8 ARCHIBAB “we have pleased (them) with this matter and they are good”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) kusīt šikkatim ana bu!-sú-mi-ša idnī AbB 9, 16: 38 ARCHIBAB “give (her) a kusītum -garment with a tassel to please her”. With corr. in BiOr 39, 590. In CAD Š/2, 432b, the word is interpreted as pussumiša “for veiling her”, but it is not cited in CAD P 217f. s.v. pasāmu D. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ú-ba-as-sim ṣeḫḫa Jiménez 2017, 398: 4 eBL “I soothed(?) the wound(?)”. new

Discussion

See SAD B 16.

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