mā
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Meanings:
what!, indeed, thus, this means
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE), MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: interj.Interjection
4Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ma šēssu … ZA 110, 46 iv 30 SEAL “indeed, his protective spirit …”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ⸢ma⸣ atta ul šarram taplaḫ ZA 110, 44 iii 43 SEAL “indeed, you did not fear the king at all”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts PN ma bilam ZA 110, 45 iii 48 SEAL “PN, indeed, bring!”
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ma naʾrārum gan[a …] Pohl 2022, 283: 22 SEAL “what? help? indeed […]”. note that the var. simply omits the mā. new