tabāku

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Variant: tapāku
Meanings:
to pour (out), spill
de:German: Deutsch hinschütten, vergießen, ausgießen
fr:French: Français verser, répandre, déverser
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: v.Verbroot: tbkIII (auch tpk) (OA pret. also asbuk ) – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem), NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)
Logogram: DUB
Etymology: Inherited Note the comment in CAD T 10 tabāku “in view of the wide range of meanings of the verb, it is probable that two or even three verbs coalesced in tabāku”.
51. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) it-bu-uk imassu ⸢am⸣-mātā[tim ?] Zimrī-Līm Epic i 29 SEAL “he spattered his (poisonous) slaver at the countr[ies(?)]”. See also similar Zimrī-Līm Epic i 31. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kīma ḫašḫurim ša simānim! ša ip-pan šattim itbuku inibšu ALL, 1 i 9 SEAL “Like an apple tree of the appropriate time, which heaped up its fruit”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma i[mi]ttašu tab-kát Sakikkû XXVII 6 “if his ri[gh]t side is limp”. Corresponds to 9 in Heeßel 2000. Cf. the parallel AMT 77/1 i 6f. See also Sakikkû XXVII 7–9 (10–12 in Heeßel 2000). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) it-bu-ka-an-ni u īsipanni ORA 7, 210: 38 “he poured me out and gathered me up”. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ina muḫḫi mīn ta-ta-ab-kan-ni SAA 13, 190 r. 25 SAAo “(I have no house, no maid, no servant … I am finished) why have you 'poured me out'?” see Kouwenberg 2005, 100. new

22. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ina awātim ú-ta ! -bi-ik-šu-ma alʾēšuma TPAK 1, 70: 7 “I weakened him and triumphed over him in a lawsuit”. new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) rēḫti kurummāti la ú-du-⸢bi⸣-ku SAA 19, 109: 7 SAAo “they have not piled up the rest of the barley rations”. For u instead of a see Leonhardt 2024, 325. Pace ib. p. 99, we assume a perf. rather than pret.

33. NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) e-ṣe-em-ṣe-ri-šu it-ta-at-bi-ku-ma CUSAS 18, 319: 28 “its backbone becomes limp”. (of a dog foetus); note ittatbikūma instead of ittatbakūma. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) [šumma K]A?*.BI it-ta-bi-ik Sakikkû XXII 62 “[if] his ... is poured out”. Corresponds to 73b in Heeßel 2000. new

NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) nišū māti gabbi it-ta-at-ba-ku SAA 17, 120: 23 SAAo “all the people of the country were crowded together”. new

14. NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) it-ta-na-at-ba-ak MesCiv. 17, 121: 16 (Lam.) “she keeps ‘spilling out’ (i.e. appearing) constantly”.

Discussion

For the ambiquous spelling ú-TAB-bi-qa-an-ni in Oshima 2011, 210: 37 (Ugaritica 5, 266 no. 162), see dabāqu.

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