bâlu
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Variant: baʾālu
Meanings:
to supplicate
de:German: Deutsch anflehen
fr:French: Français supplier
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: bʾlII/ʾ (mediae ʾaleph; schwaches ʾ, a-Vokal) – a/aa/a class (Present a, Preterite a)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
Etymology: Cf. PS *bhl “to speak emphatically, to pray,” see EDA 1, 85f. no. P0128 (SEDo).
2GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) zāqīqu a-bal-ma ul upatti uznī Ludlul II 8 eBL “I prayed to the dream(-god) but he did not inform me”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) a-ba-lu kajjamān [ša]r? dajjānī [D]N DN₂ [d]āʾin dīni ḫāʾ[i]ṭ kullati Frazer/Adalı 2021, 233 i 18 “I constantly beseeched [the kin]g(?) of judges, [D]N (and) DN₂, [wh]o renders verdicts, who wat[ch]es over everything”. Restoration according to Frazer/Adalı 2021, 233. For the partly unattested epithets of Nergal (DN) and Ninurta (DN₂) see ib. 241f. note on l. 19 and 20. new