malāḫu IV
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Meanings:
to remove, tear out
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: mlḫIII – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
1 Lexical
MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sìl-la-umbin = mumarrītum : ma-la-ḫu Emar 6/4, 545: 522 (Sª) DCCLT “splitting tool(?) = scraping tool : tearing out”. See Pentiuc 2001, 120 (“a tool used in plucking?”), but with Cohen 2010, 832 rather infinitive. See also the unclear NI = ma-la-ḫu Emar 6/4, 537: 104, for which Sjöberg 1998, 251 has suggested a WSem. lw. mng. “to salt”. new
1GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [u]l i-mal-làḫ šīru Jiménez 2017, 385: 10 eBL “he will [n]ot tear out the flesh”. new