aburû
NEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
breasts (a poetic term for 'heavens')
de:German: Deutsch Brüste (ein poetischer Ausdruck für 'Himmel')
Distribution: SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Cosmic geography
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculinenumber: pl. tant.Plurale tantum
Etymology: Borrowed < Sum.Sumerian ubur Cf. Ea II 216 (MSL 14, 256: 216) ú-bu-ru = GE₂₂ = ša-mu-ú. See Lambert 1994, 72 ad r. 10.
2Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) inūm a-bu-ru-ú ištanû šikinšun Lambert 1994, 70: 10 “when the heavens changed their appearance”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [... a-b]u-⸢ru-ú⸣ elûti išteneʾʾû BM.34735 r. 5 eBL“he constantly probes the high heavens”.