ṣajjāḫu
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Meanings:
(a bird), lit. "laugher"
de:German: Deutsch (ein Vogel), wörtl. "Lacher"
fr:French: Français (un oiseau), littéralement « rieur »
ar:Arabic: العربية (نوع من الطيور)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Birds; animals
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: ṣjḫII/j (mediae infirmae)pattern: PaRRāSPerformer of the verbal content, denoting professions and other habitual (mostly criminal) actions
Etymology: Derived ＜ ṣīʾāḫu
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṣa-ja-ḫu-ummeš Edubba 7, 100: 66. In list of birds. Black/Al-Rawi 1987, 124 and Al-Rawi/Dalley 2000, 106 correct the clear ja (PI) to aḫ which is unneccesary. Veldhuis 2004, 304 reads za-pi-ḫu-um and connects it with zà-pi-ḫu-ummušen attested twice in Sum. context. new
Discussion
Cf. perhaps Spilopelia senegalensis (also barbary dove, Germ. “Lachtaube”).