nāʾiru
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Variant: nāḫiru, nāʾeru
Meanings:
roaring, screeching
de:German: Deutsch brüllend, kreischend
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Sounds; articulation
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjectiveroot: nʾrI/n; II/ʾ (primae nūn, mediae ʾaleph)pattern: PāRiSG-stem participle
Etymology: Derived < naʾāru
3Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts šarrim na-e-ri-im ZA 110, 43 iii 7 SEAL “raging king(?)”. in broken context.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts na-ḫi-ru-tim šadî upīṣ Pohl 2022, 219: 12 SEAL “he crushed the raging mountains”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) na-i-ru JCS 66, 82: 308 (Gilg.) eBL “Roaring”. (in list of Ḫumbaba's sons).