zammāru
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Meanings:
singer
de:German: Deutsch Sänger
Distribution: MA onward(s)MA onward(s): Middle Assyrian onwards (ca. 1500 BCE onwards), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculineroot: zmrIIIpattern: PaRRāSPerformer of the verbal content, denoting professions and other habitual (mostly criminal) actions
Etymology: Derived ＜ zamāru II
1Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kīma summi adammuma gimir ūmīja za-am-ma-ru (∥ [za]-ma-a-ru; za-ma-riš) qubbêja ušaṣrap Ludlul I 108 eBL “(meanwhile,) I wailed like a dove all my days (and) loudly raised my lamentation(s) like(?) a singer (∥ in singing)”. See also zammāriš. Diff. Oshima 2014, 85 (“I kept the singers reciting my lamentation loudly”). Note also that the usual OB and SB form would be zammeru. Hätinen 2022 n. on 107 understands zammāru (treated here as loc.-adv. zammārū with comparative function replacing the terminative in the var.) as ‘predicative complement’ in accordance with , Panayotov/Stadhouders 2018, 650–653. new