zāʾiru

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Variant: zāʾeru, MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) zēʾiru
Meanings:
hostile; enemy
de:German: Deutsch feindlich; Feind
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: zʾrII/ʾ (mediae ʾaleph)pattern: PāRiSG-stem participle
Etymology: Derived < zêru
1 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gú-dù-a = za-e-ru Civil 1994, 205 i 15 DCCLT “enemy”. new

4Further Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kānik za-e-er PN ina qabê Ištar RIMA 1, 66 no. 2001: 4 “'Sealer of the enemy of PN by the command of Ištar'”. As name of a lion figurine. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) nakrī Ellil ištakan za-<e?>-ri-⸢šu⸣ Zimrī-Līm Epic i 17 SEAL “he treated the foes of Enlil as his enemies”. Likely to be an error for zā<ʾe>rīšu. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) murta⸢si⸣b? za-⸢e-ra⸣-am Zimrī-Līm Epic i 6 SEAL “he who keeps smiting the foe”. Reading after Or. 86, 34. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢šumqut⸣ za-ʾi-i-ri-⸢ia⸣* [ka]šād māt ajjābi … ana šerikti šur[kam] RINBE 1/1, 208 ii 31 “grant [me] (…) to throw down my enemy, [to con]quest the hostile land(s)”. new

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