šerʾānu
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Variant: širḫānu
Meanings:
strip; sinew; vein, bloodvessel; muscle
de:German: Deutsch Streifen; Sehne; Vene, Blutgefäß; Muskel
fr:French: Français bande ; tendon ; veine, vaisseau sanguin ; muscle
Distribution: OA onward(s)OA onward(s): Old Assyrian onwards (ca. 1900 BCE onwards), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivesuffix: -ānSuffix -ān
Logogram: SA
Etymology: Inherited Cf. PS *ŝVrj/w/ʿ, *ŝVrj/ʿ-ān “(Achilles) tendon; sinew, muscle (of leg)”, see SED 1, 268 (SEDo). Note also Aram. šrj “to loosen; (D) to begin” and its derivation šrjh, šrjtʾ (f.) “joint” as well as (the not explicitly connected) šrjn, šrjnʾ (m.) “joint; sinew”.
11. In the meaning "sinew", for manufacturing and fastening
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina mašak muṣaʾʾirāni arraqi ina SA arrabi tašap[pi] Sakikkû XXIX 7 “(the prepared materials) you wra[p] in the skin of a very green frog with the sinew(s) of a dormouse”. Corresponds to 15–17 in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XXVIII 1, Sakikkû XXX 24′ and passim in Sakikkû XXIX (all with various animals). new
12. Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢mitḫ⸣aṭ (sic)[i]ttī eṣe⸢mtim⸣ u ši-ir-ḫa-⸢ni⸣-im CUSAS 32, 28a: 16 SEAL “wrestle(!) with bone and muscle!” Birth incantation. mitḫaṭ is presumably a mistake for mitḫaṣ (George 2016, 141; Wasserman/Zomer 2022, 76). new