warqu II
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Variant: arqu, urqu, irqu, mašqu, erqu
Meanings:
vegetation, greenery; (pl.) vegetables
Domain: Plants; foodstuffs
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: wrqI/w (primae wāw)pattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem.
Logogram: Ú.SAR
Etymology: Derived ＜ warāqu
11. Greenery
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) e-er-qú-um e-ri-iq e-ri-iq-tum e-er-qá-at AML, 1: 24f. SEAL “the verdure is green, the vegetation is green”. Note that the fem. adj. otherwise has the pattern PaRuSt-. On the (O)Ass. forms erqu, eriqtu see GOA 78. new
22. Pl.Plural: Vegetables
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) nukarribu ina kīšišu ša Ú.SAR RINAP 5/2, 244 ii 4 RINAP “the gardener (receives camels and slaves) for his bag of vegetables”. Previously interpreted as uḫīru in AHw 1404 (now deleted, see already CAD 47).
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) adi maš-qu u gipû PIHANS 86, 177 BM 42408 5 “including vegetables and baked dates”. new