ḫaḫḫu II
REVIEW
Meanings:
plum (tree and fruit)
de:German: Deutsch Pflaume (Baum und Frucht)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1Attestations
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (boxes of) gišḫa-aḫ-ḫi SAA 11, 85: 5 SAAo. new
Discussion
The mng. “plum” (AHw. 308) is based on etym. comparison with Aram. ḫōḫ, Arab. ḫauḫ. Postgate 1987, 129f., points out that the latter means “peach” in modern Egyptian and Iraqi, but this fruit was probably not introduced in Mesopotamia prior to the Achaemenid era.