bibbu
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Variant: bību+
Meanings:
(a kind of wild sheep); planet
de:German: Deutsch (ein Wildschaf); Planet
fr:French: Français (une espèce de mouton sauvage) ; planète
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculinepattern: PiRS
Logogram: d
UDU.IDIM
, mul
UDU.IDIM
, mul
UDU.IDIM.GU₄.UD
Etymology: Note the possible PS *bVb(b) “a wild ruminant,” see SED 2, 54; Kogan 2011, 208 (SEDo).
1 Lexical
MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts bi-i-bu Emar 6/4, 551: 47 (Hh). cf. MSL 8/2, 17.
2Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) bi-bi jaʾūte epšī Streck/Wasserman 2018, 21 ii 38 SEAL “make my planets (favorable??)”. cf. Streck/Wasserman 2018, 13. Note that a mng. “to make favorable” is not otherwise attested for epēšu. new
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts bi-ib-bu murtappid[u] AulaOr. Suppl. 23, 19: 2 “ever running wild sheep”. in list of demons.
Discussion
The names listed in AHw and CAD s.v. bibû “baby(?)” may belong here. See the spellings Bi-ib-bu-ú(-a). According to Landsberger 1934, 95 (adopted in AHw 124), it may refer to a kind of mouflon (Ovis laristanica?).