urullu II
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Variant: arullu, arurru
Meanings:
(a kind of reed)
de:German: Deutsch (eine Rohrart)
fr:French: Français (une sorte de roseau)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Uncertain
1Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) muṣaʾʾirāna [arraqa ša] ina muḫḫi sammallu úururu-ul-l[u izzizzu] AOAT 43, 117 BM 56605 7 “a [very green] frog [which sat] on top of a sammallu -plant or u .-reed”. Cf. the parallel Sakikkû XXIX 22′ (52′–54′ in Heeßel 2000; see also Schmidtchen 2025, 183) ([úuru]⸢ru⸣-ul-lu! ⸢GUB⸣-[zu...]). new