buqlu

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Variant: buqulu
Meanings:
malt
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE)
Domain: Foodstuffs; food production and preparation; food, diet, and nutrition
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivenumber: pl. fem.Plural feminine buqlāturoot: bqlIIIpattern: PuRS
Logogram: MÙNU, MUNU₅
Etymology: Derived < baqālu
6Attestations

OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NUMUN bu-uq-lu RA 55, 94 no. 407: 3 “sprouted (?) seed”. new

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ištū ša bu-uq-[lá]-tím ana ša bu-uq-lá-tím* išaqqal AKT 7a, 149: 4, 5 “he will pay from the (time of) malt until the (time of) malt(?)”. new

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana bu-uq-lá-tim išaqqulū Prag, 500: 6 “they shall pay at (the time of) the malt”. new

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šeʾam lū tašʾamma bu-uq-lam u bappiramma tēpuš AKT 2, 26: 17 “may she buy grain and make malt and beer bread”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šeʾum ša a-na MÙNU rubbê lúMÙNUmeš imḫurū CUSAS 9, 188: 1 “barley, which the maltsters received for risen malt”. See also ib. no. 200: 2. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) pagrī nuballišu u Aḫlamê … kīma MUNU₅ (ŠE. BÙLUG) ašṭēma RINAP 2, 333 vi 49 “I spread out the corpses of his vanguard and of the Arameans like malt”. Borger 1987, 145f.; the line has been read incorrectly in both CAD and AHw. s.v. puṣuddu (kīma pu-ṣu-di-e-ma) .

Discussion

See Stol 1987, 65 and 1989: not always “malt”, but also “vegetables”.

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