naglabu

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Variant: naglapu
Meanings:
razor, shaving blade; (a cut of meat), haunch; shoulder blade (of humans)
de:German: Deutsch Rasiermesser, Rasierklinge; (ein Fleischstück), Keule; Schulterblatt (beim Menschen)
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), MA onward(s)MA onward(s): Middle Assyrian onwards (ca. 1500 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: glbIIIpattern: maPRaS
Logogram: MAŠ.SÌLA, OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ŠU.I (or <GÍR>.ŠU.I)
Etymology: Derived < galābu (?) Note also SED 1, CXLI, where the term is compared with Eth. *gulb-at “knee” (assumed to be of Cushitic origin).
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Lexical Lists

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) bàd-gír-šu-i = dūr na-ag-la-bi ZA 94, 230 i 5 “(part of the shoulder blade?)”. see Krebernik ib. p. 232f. new

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) bir⸢ti⸣ aḫīšu = birīt MAŠ.SÌLAmeš-šú CunMon. 49/2, 73: 18 “the space between his arms (means) the space between his shoulder blades”. Commentary Sakikkû III 9. See also the Sakikkû III commentary in Wee 2019, 118: 9 (birīt nag-la-⸢x x⸣). new

31. Razor

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 14 na-ag-la-b[a-tum ZABAR] ARM 32, 250 iii 27 (= ARM 24, 90+) “14 bronze razors”. See Arkhipov 2012, 137f. with add. refs. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts lāma ikšudūka ṣurrū na-ag-la-b[u (ša)] Gula AML, 41: 5 SEAL “(go out, maškadu -disease,) before the flint razors of Gula reach you!”

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kussû piṭirša kī iṣi mašrat nag-la-pat StAT 3, 7: 3 “a chair (and) its detachment – since the wood is worn and scraped”. new

12. A cut of meat

MB-EmarMB-Emar: Middle Babylonian texts from Emar (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) a cut of meat, haunch na-ag-la-ab UDU Emar 6/3, 370: 35 “haunch of sheep”. see Fleming 1992, 151; CAD N/1 naglabu A. new

13. Shoulder blade

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢nag⸣-la-ba- ⸢ka⸣ (∥ MAŠ.SÌLA-ka; bēlu) ḫaniš šākin erpēti mušaznin ṭuḫdi ZA 113, 199: 23 eBL “your shoulders (var.: 'o lord') are Ḫaniš, who creates the clouds and makes abundance rain down”. new

Discussion

Del. ref. KAJ 129: 2 (CAD N/1, 120; AHw 711), see Deller/Mayer/Sommerfeld 1987, 180.

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