umāmu
REVIEW
Variant: emammu, emāmu
Meanings:
animal, beast
Domain: Animals
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuRāS
2Attestations
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢dīn⸣ ú-ma-⸢a-am-mi⸣ … t[adīn] DAAM 2, 6: 10' “you (scil. Šamaš) ha[ve judged] the animals”. Note the irregular spelling. – Cf. CTH 372: 36f. || CTH 374: 23f. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) lā muntal⸢kum⸣ma emi kīma ú-ma-[mi?] Counsels of Wisdom: 6 eBL “(someone) without reasoning has (already) become like an ani[mal]”. According to Oshima (see note on l. 6 in Földi 2022), a restoration umā[m ṣēri] might also be possible.