zarâ
DRAFT
Alternative Reading: ṣarâ
Meanings:
(newly) edited, arranged
de:German: Deutsch (neu) bearbeitet, arrangiert
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: adv.Adverb, subst.Substantive
Logogram:
SUR.GIBIL
(perhaps rather a Sumerogram)
Etymology: Uncertain Cf. the discussion and further refs. in Schmidtchen 2018, 150f., especially fn. 100. Possibilities include, a) relation to Hebrew ṣrr “to bind” (cf. Campbell Thomspon 1924, 5 fn. 3, who suggested the variant root ṣwr, but distanced himself from this suggestion in id. 1949, ix fn. 4); b) derivation from Akkadian zarû II “to winnow, scatter” (Frahm 2011, 328 fn. 1567 “which could describe the process of selecting authoritative texts in a metaphorical way as 'sifting the chaff from the wheat'”), or c) a (learned) borrowing from Sum. zara (zara₅ = BE) (Lambert 2005, xix).
Discussion
See the discussion in Schmidtchen 2018, 150f. as well as Frahm 2011, 328; Stol 2007, 241f.; Lieberman 1990, 333 fn. 182.