šaliḫatu
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Meanings:
(an aromatic)
de:German: Deutsch (ein Aromat)
fr:French: Français (un aromatique)
ar:Arabic: العربية (عطرية)
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Aromatics; plants
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed < WSem.West Semitic Jursa 2009, 165: Lw. from Sabaic slḫt. Cf. Arabic salīḫat “cassia” (Jursa 1997a, 30 Nr. 34) and Hebrew šḥlt “an ingredient of the holy incense” (Zadok 1997, 51f. Nr. 55). Cf. Ugaritic šḥlt “cress seeds” (Olmo Lete / Sanmartín 2004, 812) with /ḥ/ instead of /ḫ/, however; see the discussion in Zadok 1997, 52.
1Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šimšá-li-ḫa-tum Jursa 2009. BM 63707 r. 5; BM 73126 r. 3 (?). new
Discussion
Jursa 2009, 165 with Sima 2000, 277 identifies šalīḫātu with Cinnamomum aromaticum/cassia.