kalbum
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Akkadian[edit]
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k-l-b |
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Semitic *kalb- (โdogโ). Cognate with Arabic ููููุจ (kalb) and Biblical Hebrew ืึถึผืึถื (kษฬlษแธ).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /หkal.bum/
Noun[edit]
kalbum m (construct state kalab, plural kalbลซ, feminine kalbatum)
- dog also as an invective
- ๐ช๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ [mฤซnum ลกunลซma kalbลซ] โ mi-nu-um ลกu-nu-ma ka-al-bu โ What are they? (Nothing but) dogs!
- dog figurine
- (astronomy, with determinative ๐ฏ) Hercules (the constellation)
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References[edit]
- โkalbuโ, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956โ2011
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) โkalbu(m)โ, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag