ṣabītu
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Meanings:
gazelle
de:German: Deutsch Gazelle
fr:French: Français gazelle
Distribution: Ebla-LexEbla-Lex: Lexical texts from Ebla, 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.Substantivepattern: PaRaSt (?)
Logogram: MAŠ.DÀ
Etymology: Inherited ＜ *ṯ̣aby(-at)-, cf. SED 2, 242; SEDonline.
4Attestations
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts ṣa-bi₄-tam āmurma OA Sarg.: 13 SEAL “I saw a gazelle”.
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts ṣa-bi₄-tám aṣbat OA Sarg.: 27 SEAL “I caught the gazelle”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) MAŠ.DÀ esrat šāri MesCiv. 7, 2: 52 “gazelle, enclosed by the wind”. Sargon Birth Legend. Uncl. iṣ-rat without transl. in CAD L 241 lulīmu 1 and “driven by the wind” Westenholz 1997, 45.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma KI.MIN (murṣa arka maruṣma kīma) MAŠ.DÀ īmur Sakikkû XXVIII 17 “if ditto (he suffers from a long disease and) sees (something like) a gazelle”. Corresponds to 29 in Heeßel 2000. new