abābu II
ALLLAD includes all known attestations of this wordNEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
to devastate (?)
de:German: Deutsch vernichten (?)
fr:French: Français dévaster (?)
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Elimination
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ʾbbI/ʾ; I/e; II/gem (primae ʾaleph, mediae geminatae) – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Arab. hbb “sich in Bewegung setzen, toben, wüten, ausbrechen (von Feuer)” (Wehr 1985, 1335f.). Probably the same root as abūbu. Diff. Jiménez 2021, 289: variant of kabābu II “to burn”?
2GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [m]āmiš ištû muttakkip tâmti gallati gīriš i-bu-b[u] Jiménez 2022, 240: 73 “(your mace, that) drinks (the enemy) like water, that gores the rolling sea, that devastates (them) like fire”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [bī]t? kīni lū ša lipî ... gīru ul íb-bab Reiner 2008, 208: 3 eBL “[the ho]use of the just, even if made of tallow, the fire will not devastate it”. See Jiménez 2021, 289. new