biqlu
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Meanings:
sprout, sapling
de:German: Deutsch Keim, Schößling
fr:French: Français germe, jeune pousse
ar:Arabic: العربية شتلة، بقلة
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)
Domain: Plants; parts of plants; food production and preparation
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivenumber: pl. fem.Plural feminine biqlēturoot: bqlIIIpattern: PiRS
Etymology: Inherited For biqlu instead of piglu see Zadok 1993, 321: BQL, etym. Syr. bqlʾ “sprout”, Ugar. bql “groats”. See also Heimpel 2003, 188 who connects the word with buqlu “malt”; see also Stol 2008, 353 (spelling piglu) and Streck 2000, 86f. (on Amorite etym.).
1Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) GIŠḫi.a bi-iq-lam ša taskarinnim ARM 26/1, 134 no. 21 r. 11 ARCHIBAB “trees, sapling(s) of boxtree”.
Discussion
See SAD B 33.