wabālum

From Proto-Semitic *wabal- (to carry). Cognate with Arabic وَبَلَ (wabala, “to carry much rain”) and Biblical Hebrew הוֹבִיל (hoḇil, “to lead, transport”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /waˈbaː.lum/

wabālum (G, a-i, durative ubbal, perfect ittabal, preterite ubil, imperative bil) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. to bring, transport
2. to carry (things, animals, people; life, prosperity; messages, dreams)

   𒉺𒈾𒄠 𒉿𒁀𒈝 ― pa-na-am wa-ba-lum ― to forgive (literally, “to carry the face”)

   𒌒𒇴 𒉺𒉌𒅀 ― ub-lam pa-ni-ia ― forgive me!

3. to carry off, sweep away
4. to fetch (a price), be worth
5. (mathematics) to multiply

• wabālu (non-mimated)
• babālum (Old Babylonian)
• abālu (Standard Babylonian)
• ubālu (Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian)

• “abālu 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) “wabālu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library