ḫarādu I
Discussion
In TC 3, 265: 7, read ḫa-ra-nim, see K. Hecker, https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/altass/pdfsrc/tc3.pdf p. 251; GOA 454.
OB nakrum ana ḫa-ra-di-im par[ā]sim a[na P]N ... iṭḫēma ARM 1, 90: 9 “the enemy drew near to PN in order to cut off the ...”. Cf. AHw. 322 “wüstes Gebiet(?)”. Durand 1987, 170; Durand 1998, 89 suggests to derive the word from ḫarādu IV “wachen, bewachen” AHw. 322 and translates “gué”. He also refers to the toponym Ḫar(r)adu. Archibab also translates “gúe”, but marks the word as proper name and comments “un mot du vocabulaire géographique utilisé comme toponyme”. The geographic context of the letter that mentions Turukkû, Nurrugum and Amursakkum in the north and northeast does not favor the idea that the town of Har(r)adum in the southeast is meant here (note also the missing determinative ki). A derivation of the alleged noun ḫarādu from the verb ḫarādu IV, only attested in NA, is doubtful. The context does not support a mng. “ford”. No other etym. is at hand. The only other (OA) ref. for the alleged noun is a misreading for ḫarrānim (see above). The idiom alākta/gerra/ḫarrāna parāsu is well attested. Therefore, the emendation by von Soden 1952, 82 to ḫa-ra-ni!-im, followed also in CAD P 168 parāsu 1f, seems to be the least problematic solution for the crux.