Meanings:
to proliferate, accumulate (?)
de:German: Deutsch wuchern, sich ansammeln (?)
fr:French: Français proliférer, s'accumuler (?)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: lqšIII – vowel class undeterminedVowel class undetermined (insufficient evidence)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Hebr. lqš “to glean, gather” (see see Gesenius 413) and leqeš “after crop, spring crop” (ib. 413) and possible taken over in Aram./Syr. lqš (D) “to bear late fruit” with (derived from the adj. lqjš whose derivates range in their meanign between “grain that grows from discarded straw”, “delay(?)”, and “late blooming/ripening”), see Sokoloff 2009, 697; Jastrow 719; Sokoloff 2002, 633; Sokoloff 2017, 286. Semantically, the root seems thus similar to the comparable roots lqḥ (leqû) “to take” and lqt (laqātu) “to gather up.” However, more promising in the attested contexts is Arab. lkṯ “to overburden(?)” (the refs. to striking may be rendered with a meaning “to cover (with blows?)”), “(II) affected with lakaṯun-disease (of camels); adhere (said of dirt)”, see Lane 2671; note further the terms lakaṯun and lukāṯun, a disorder in the mouth of camels, resembling pustules and simila likāṯatun, a disorder attacking sheep or goats in the sides of the mouths and the lips, resembling ulcer (ib.). Note also the less likely etym. Aram. lkš “to burn”, see Tal 2000, 438.
33 attestationsOf lesions, skin conditions, and hemorrhoids
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
šumma ina lakû⸢ti⸣šu la-qiš*-ma
Sakikkû XXXIII 37 “if it (the lesion?) is proliferating(?) in his childhood(?)”. See also Sakikkû XXXIII 36, 44–47, 51–53 (partly restored) where it appears always together with ina lakûtišu. Diff. Scurlock 2014, 237 (“If he is clothed” reading la-bišₓ-ma instead). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
šumma amīlu šuburra maruṣ lamṣat šuburrišu imruṭ laq-šat u dāma [malât]
AMD 14, 318 o. 22′ “if a man suffers at the anus, he scratches the hemorrhoid(s) on his anus, it is proliferated(?) and [filled] with blood”. Not translated in Heeßel 2018, 325. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
šumma amīlu šuburra maruṣ lamṣat ⸢šuburri⸣šu [imr]uṭ laq-šat kibru dāma mali
AMD 14, 319 r. 32 “if a man suffers at the anus, [he scrat]ches the hemorrhoid(s) on his anus, it is proliferated(?), (and) the edge is filled with blood”. Not translated in Heeßel 2018, 329. new
Discussion
The meaning proposed here is tentative (see etymological discussion above). Given the specific context, the attestations come from, a terminological meaning in connection with skin afflictions is assumed (similar to the use in classical Arabic).