madbaru

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Variant: mudabiru+, midbaru+
Meanings:
desert, steppe
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Domain: Landscape
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed < NWSem.Northwest Semitic In OB a loan from Amorite, in NA from Aramaic. See Streck 2000, 103; Cherry 2023, 162ff.. Abraham/Sokoloff 2011, 39 consider the word a loan from WSem., but not specifically from Aramaic.
7Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gerrum šū ma-ad-ba-rum dan ARM 26/1, 113 no. 14: 10 “this route, the steppe, is a difficult one”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina ma-ad-ba-ri-im imuttū Durand 1990: 104 n. 12 M.8374 “they are dying in the desert”. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) mid-bar [šūtu a]na šakāni ša mada[kte adanniš] ṭāba SAA 1, 13: 15 “[there is] a plain which is [very] good for making camp”. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina mu-da- ⸢bir ⸣ … mērū SAA 19, 12 r. 8 “are trading in the desert”. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) urdānēka ina mu-da-bir iktarrū CTN 2, 188: 4 “your servants set the steppe on fire”. Parpola 1979, 24. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (area of sown land) ina mu-da-bi-ri SAA 11, 227: 2, 5. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana mu-da-bi-⸢ri⸣ iḫtalqūni SAA 15, 53: 12 “they ran away to the desert”. new

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