eblu
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Meanings:
rope, string
de:German: Deutsch Seil, Schnur
fr:French: Français corde, ficelle
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts, MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem.
Etymology: Inherited (?) Cf. Aram. ḥḇel, ḥaḇlā “rope, cord, snare”, see Sokoloff 2009, 408; Sokoloff 2002, 427 (2#); Arab. ḥabl “Strick, Seil”, see Wehr, 226f. (note also the denom. verb ḥbl VIII “mit der Schlinge Fangen”).
1Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ušandû ana gišparrišu iṭam eb-lu Jiménez 2017, 250: 21 eBL “the bird-catcher plaits the rope for his trap”.