karpassu
DRAFT
Variant: qarpāsu
Meanings:
(a fine textile, perhaps cotton)
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 20 ka-⸢ar-pa⸣-as-su RA 83, 69: 11. Also 1-en ka-ar-pa-⸢as-sà⸣ ib. 23, see Beaulieu ib. 71. new
Discussion
CAD Q opted to delete this lemma and read qar-aru (PA) in the two known NA refs. This sign value is rare, however, and the new LB refs. suggests that the word was borrowed into Akk. after all.