nabāṭu

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Meanings:
to be(come) bright
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: nbṭI/n (primae nūn)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem), ŠtŠt-stem (Š with t-infix), ŠDŠD-stem (Causative-Intensive), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem), NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)
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SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ŠD+ŠD-stem (Causative-Intensive) uš-na-baṭ || uš-na-an-baṭ zīmušu Jiménez 2017, 252: 36 eBL “I brighten his face”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) [i]mš[u]š mamm[ê rūš]ašu uzak⸢ki⸣ [ú-šá]-an-biṭ [ .. ]. ⸢kīma⸣ si⸢par⸣ri Ludlul IV Sec. A 21 eBL “he wiped off the frost, he cleaned its dirt, [he made ... s]hine like bronze”. See Hätinen 2025, 18 restoring [šuḫtī] “patina” in tḫe break in tḫe middle of tḫe line. With restorations according to comm. K.3291 r 27f.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) ina mesê malê ⸢utal⸣l[il] rimki tēdištu u i-tab-b[u-ṭi?] Ludlul V 38 eBL “I purif[ied] myself by washing the dirty (body) hair—a bath of renewal and becoming bri[ght (again)]”. Diff. Oshima 2014, 109 (“The[y] repeatedly perf[ormed] the bathing ritual (and) the restoration of (my) ruined (image/estate)?” interpreting the end of the line LIBIR i-tap-p[u-šu]).

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