Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary

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Default Search

• Enter
  Opens the highlighted autocomplete suggestion (the first one unless you move the highlight with the arrow keys).
• Ctrl + Enter
  Runs a full search across the whole database — lemmas, definitions, quotes, translations, notes, and AHw/CAD raw content (⌘ + Enter on a Mac; Ctrl + click on the Search button does the same, a plain click acts as Enter).
• Akkadian:
  Lemmas and variants
• English:
  Definitions and derived senses

Transliteration Shortcuts

Type ASCII digit suffixes — they are automatically rewritten to the canonical Unicode form used in the data when you submit the search.

• par2 → pár
  Suffix 2: acute on the first vowel
• par3 → pàr
  Suffix 3: grave on the first vowel
• par4 → par₄
  Suffix 4 and above: subscript digits
• kalama10 → kalama₁₀
  Multi-digit suffixes work too
• ma-at-nu2 → ma-at-nú
  In hyphenated transliterations the suffix applies to the last token only

Search Modes

• saru
  Flexible: finds šarru, saru, šāru (ignores diacritics and gemination)
• sarru
  Semi-flexible: finds šarru, ṣarru (respects gemination, ignores diacritics)
• šarru
  Exact: finds only šarru (respects all diacritics)

Wildcards

• paru
  Matches "paru" or words starting with "paru"
• paru*
  Starts with: words starting with "paru"
• *paru
  Ends with: words ending with "paru"
• *paru*
  Contains: words containing "paru" anywhere
• par?
  Single character: "par" + any one character
• par@
  Consonant: "par" + any single consonant
• par#
  Vowel: "par" + any single vowel

Field-specific Search

• en:mule
  English definitions only
• de:Maultier
  German definitions only
• fr:mule
  French definitions only
• ar:بغل
  Arabic definitions only
• root:PRʾ
  Root search (supports wildcards)
• pos:verb
  Part of speech
• lemma:parû
  Lemma only (no variants)
• variant:alamattu
  Variants only
• log:ANŠE
  Logogram search
• domain:
  Semantic domain — type the colon to list values
• topic:
  Attestation topic — type the colon to list values
• ANŠE.KUR.RA
  ALL CAPS triggers logogram search

Attestations search

• att:bib:KAR 158
  Attestations that cite a text. Type att: and a reference: the list shows the attestations in the order of the text — the reference (for a field search, the matched words), the entry and its meaning. Enter opens the highlighted entry at that attestation; Ctrl+Enter lists them all and searches CAD and AHw for the plain reference.
• att:akk:šarrum
  The Akkadian text of the attestation. Diacritics are ignored, so sarrum finds šarrum and ba-la-tu finds ba-la-ṭu.
• att:tr:king
  The translation of the attestation.
• att:mus:BM 34160
  Museum number. Spaces, dots and hyphens are ignored, so BM 34160, BM.34160 and BM34160 all match.
• att:src:ebl
  The project a passage is linked to: ebl, seal, archibab, cal.
• att:period:ob
  Attestations of a period, by the id of the period list: oakk, ob, mb, sb, nb, lb, oa, ma, na … A short id also takes its sub-periods (ob → ob_onwards, oblit, oblex).
• att:lemma:šarrum
  Attestations belonging to one entry, by its lemma or its entry id.
• att:bib:ARM period:ob
  Fields combine, each one narrowing the search further. This gives the Old Babylonian attestations from ARM; att:akk:šarrum period:nb the Neo-Babylonian ones containing šarrum.
• att:KAR 158
  Without a field, every attestation field is searched at once.