ḫamru III
NEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
fermented; an alcoholic beverage
de:German: Deutsch vergoren; ein alkoholisches Getränk
Distribution: EblaEbla: Ebla (ca. 2400–2300 BCE), MB-EmarMB-Emar: Middle Babylonian texts from Emar (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ NWSem.Northwest Semitic Cf. Hebr. ḥämär “wine” (Gesenius¹⁸ 2, 368); Arab. ḫamr “wine” (Wehr 1985, 364), see also SEDo.
2Attestations
MB-EmarMB-Emar: Middle Babylonian texts from Emar (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kāsāti KAŠ.MEŠ.GEŠTIN : ḫa-am-[ra] ... umallû Emar 6/3, 369: 38 “fill the cups with wine”. Similarly no. 370: 30'. See Pentiuc 2001, 55f. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) karāna ḫa-am-ra ṭāba BAM 1, 42: 31 “good fermented wine”. (∥ karāna danna ṭāba).
Discussion
See Stol 2017, 39f..