mūšu

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Meanings:
night
de:German: Deutsch Nacht
fr:French: Français nuit
Domain: Time; times of day
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: mšjIII/j (tertiae infirmae)pattern: PuRS
Etymology: Inherited cf. SEDonline.
8Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (offerings) ana akal mu-ši CUSAS 9, 86: 9 “for the night meal”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GNN ina mu-ší-im ištīn uḫall⸢iq⸣šunūti ZA 93, 8 ii 14 “(concerning) GNN, he destroyed them in a single night”.

MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 ṣubāt mu-ši qeršu takiltum CUSAS 30, 364: 8 “1 night-cloth with a qeršu fabric made of blue-purple wool”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ūmu šutānuḫu mu-šú (var.: mu-šu ; GE₆-šu ; mu-ši) gerrānu arḫu qitajjulu idirtu šattu Ludlul I 105 eBL “crestfallen at day, wailing at night, anxious silence for a month, misery for a year”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) kal ūmu rēdû ireddân[ni] ina šāt mu-ši ul unappašannu surriš Ludlul II 103 eBL “my pursuer followed [me] all day long, (and) during the night he would not let me breathe freely for a second”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [u]rra u mu-šú ištēniš ana⸢ṭṭ⸣al ? Ludlul III 7 eBL “[d]ay and night, I exp[erience]d(?) all the same”. Diff. Hätinen 2025, 10f. (reading [... a(n)-na-šá]-ri; VAT.9954: a-na-š[ar] “I am diminished”).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ajjûmma ša ina šat mu-ši ibrû bī[ra] Ludlul III 39 eBL “anyone who performed div[ination] during the middle of the night”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) lazza muruṣ qaqqadi ša [s]ūʾiš kabt[u] is-suḫ [k]īma nalši mū[š]i elīja uštess[i] Ludlul III 81 eBL “the persistent illness of the head, which was (as) heavy as a [g]rinding stone, he removed [l]ike noctu[rn]al dew (and) made it reced[e] from me”.

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