šeleppûm

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Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šalaḥpaw/y-, *šalapḥaw/y- (turtle). Cognate with Arabic سُلَحْفَاة (sulaḥfāh) and Biblical Hebrew שַׁלְחוּפָה (šalḥup̄ɔ).

Pronunciation

Noun

šeleppûm m (plural šeleppû) (from Old Akkadian on)

  1. turtle
  2. a type of snake

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References

  • “šeleppû”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
  • Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šeleppû(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag