zalāqu
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Meanings:
(a shiny stone)
de:German: Deutsch (ein glänzender Stein)
fr:French: Français (une pierre brillante)
Distribution: MB-Bo.MB-Bo.: Middle Babylonian texts from Boğazköy/Hattuša (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: na₄
ZÁLAG
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian zálag Cf. zalag/zálag “(a stone)” (EPSD2) and “shine” (EPSD2). Note the loan in Syr. zlg Š “to shine” (with several derivations), see Sokoloff 2009, 381 and zlq, zlqʾ “flash, brilliance”, see Sokoloff 2009, 385. We may likewise consider an early loan of a semitic language into Sumerian.
1In therapeutic prescriptions
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) na₄ZÁLAG parzilla itti šamni taṣappi tapa[ššassuma ...] Sakikkû XXIX 28′ “you soak (crushed?) z .-stone (and) iron with oil (and) you ru[b him (with it)]”. Corresponds to 67′–69′ in Heeßel 2000. Against Antašubba-epilepsy. new
Discussion
See the short discussion in Schuster-Brandis 2008, 456. Accordingly, it is described as a stone “bright as the day” and a lexical entry describes it as “shiny” (namru).