līlu
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Variant: lēlu, līlēn
Meanings:
evening
de:German: Deutsch Abend
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Domain: Times of day; time
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Inherited
3Attestations
OB (?)OB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) — uncertain dating in li-li-en ARM 19, 360: 6 “in the evening”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ina uṣṣi! li-li Pohl 2022, 188 ii 18 SEAL “in the stretch of the evening”. emūq li!-le!-en ib. 27 v 46 “power of the evening (i.e. Ištar as Venus)”.
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) īlilam le-e-lam libbī ittawir ALL, 11: 25 SEAL “my heart became pure in the evening, it brightened”. new
Discussion
On the dual form of words for times of the day see Streck 2017, 596f.