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Akkadian
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔaṯar- (“footstep, trace”). Cognate with Arabic أَثَر (ʔaṯar, “trace, sign”) and Biblical Hebrew אֲשֶׁר (ʔăšɛ́r, a relativizer), אֲתָר (ʔăṯɔ́r, “site, location”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ašrum m or f (construct state ašar, plural ašrū m or ašrātum f) (from Old Akkadian on)
- place, site, location, setting, locale
- 𒀀𒊬 𒀭𒌑𒅆 [ašar Šamši] ― a-šar dšam-ši ― in the open (literally, “"a sunny place"”)
- 𒀀𒊭𒅈 𒅖𒋼𒂗 [ašar ištēn] ― a-ša-ar iš-te-en ― together, unanimously (literally, “in one place”)
- country, region, city, building
Cuneiform spellings
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- 𒀾𒀸 (aš₂-rum)
- 𒀾𒊒 (aš₂-ru)
- 𒀸𒊒 (aš-ru)
- 𒀀𒊬 (a-šar) (construct state)
- 𒀀𒊭𒅈 (a-ša-ar) (construct state)
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References
- “ašru A”, 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) “ašru(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
- Huehnergard, John (2011) A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies; 45), 3rd edition, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns