nâmu
REVIEW
Meanings:
(meaning unknown)
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1Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts nu-ma-at qīštum Gilg. III 108, 195 eBL “the forest was …”.
Discussion
Gilg. OB III 108, 195, is derived by AHw. 729 from nâmu. George 2003, 199 “is a wilderness” derives the word from naw/mû “to be(come) abandoned”, for which see his comm. on p. 209. However, we do not agree that the verb nawû/nuwwû can designate “the absence of human occupation” rather than “to be(come) ruined”. In Gilg. SB II 223 || 280 || 293, nu-ma-at is replaced by from rimmu “roar” (in CAD L 75 wrongly read til-ma-at “the forest was surrounded”). One wonders whether nu-ma-at has a similar mng. Gilg. Ass. y2 obv. 13 (George 2003, 258) has yet another form, namely la-ma-su “surrounds him”.