karāṣu

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šanî[š arītu] A : māri : GUR₄ : ka-ra-ṣi CunMon. 49/2, 6: 12 “second[ly (it refers to) a pregnant woman] (since the logogram) A (means) son (and GUR₄ means) to pinch off (viz., one who pinches of clay)”. Commentary Sakikkû I 4. See similar Wee 2019, 31: 22 (partly restored). ^new

garāṣuSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) [lišānšu unaššak :] ⸢ ú?⸣-ga-ra-⸢aṣ⸣ CunMon. 49/2, 207: 2′ “[he chews his tongue (means)] he nibbles off (small pieces)”. Commentary Sakikkû VII 16. For restoration cf. the possible beginning of the commentary in Wee 2019, 201: 8 (DIŠ EME-šú ú-⸢na⸣-a[š?-šak...]). ^new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ka-ri-iṣ-ma ina apsîm ⸢ṭīdašu⸣ AML, 97: 5 ↗SEAL “the clay for it is pinched off in the Apsû”. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šūt Aruru ik-ru-ṣu keressin šakittu napšatu Ludlul V 80 ↗eBL “those whose lump (of clay) Aruru pinched off, the living beings”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) rūʾa ṭābi ú-kar-ra-ṣa (var.: ú-kar-⸢aṣ ?⸣) napištī Ludlul I 88 ↗eBL “my good friend began to vilify me for my life (e.g. in a capital case?)”. Previously, the form has been understood (following the partly damaged source SU-1951.10: ú-kar-[n]i?/ri!) as ukarri “he was diminishing (my life)” but other manuscripts have been identified which clearly suggest the reading given above; see Oshima 2014, 216. The D-stem form is suggested to represent a denom. of karṣu/ū (cf. the expression karṣī akālu “to slander, vilify”; see CAD K 210 karāṣu 4. ^new