nābalu
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Meanings:
dry land, mainland
de:German: Deutsch trockenes Land, Festland
Distribution: 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), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: ʾblI/ʾ; I/a (primae ʾaleph)pattern: maPRaS
Etymology: Derived ＜ abālu
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢ikû⸣m na-ba-lu AML, 57: 8 SEAL “the field is dried land”. (as an effect of the samānu disease). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) …-šú-nu nāru na-ba-lu ⸢na⸣bāsiš ⸢aṣr⸣up RINAP 2, 448 ii 9 RINAP “(with) their ⸢blood(?)⸣ I dyed the river (and) the dry land like red wool”.