zappu
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Variant: sappu, azappu
Meanings:
tuft of hair, bristles; Pleiades
de:German: Deutsch Haarbüschel, Borsten; Plejaden
fr:French: Français mèche de cheveux, poils ; Pléiades
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)
Domain: Body parts; celestial bodies
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem.
Logogram:
MUL.MUL
(for "Pleiades"),
MÚL.MÚL
(for "Pleiades")
Etymology: Inherited Cf. PSem. *zapp/bb “hair (on the head), bristle”, see SED 1, 297 (for cognates cf. also SEDo).
11. As materia medica et magica, in therapeutic prescriptions
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) zapₓ (text: ka)-pi kalbi ṣalmi Sakikkû XXVIII 4 “a tuft of hair from a black dog”. Corresponds to 11–13 in Heeßel 2000. The reading of zapₓ (ka) -pi follows Stol 1993, 84. new
12. Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) lunassiḫam za-ap-pi-ka AML, 140: 59 SEAL “(lay with me, so that) I may pluck your bristles”. new