Elementary Sumerian Glossary

ulug chisel; needle, pin; seal-pin (Civil Oriental
Institute website corrections to PSD B); latch-pin(?);
border-marker(?); axis
bulug-KIN-gur4 (surgical) lancet
bùluĝ to grow up, rear children or young, make grow,
ripen; to be great, to elevate
bùluĝ, bulùĝ-ĝá foster-child
bunga(NITA(2).GA) child
bur (stone) bowl, vessel (Yuhong, AV Klein 391)
bur-gi4-a (a kind of offering)
bur-gul stonecutter, engraver
bur-saĝ (a servant); (a building used for storage of
offerings, see Heimpel, JCS 33, 106)
bur-šu-ma old woman, matron, matriarch
bur-zi (a kind of bowl)
ú búr (a kind of grass)
búr to free, loosen, release; to reveal, explain, interpret
(dreams); to undo, nullify (curse, sin, anger); to spread
widely, spread out over, cover (cf. á - búr, ki-búr,
múš - búr)
búr, bu, bu7 to glow, shine
búr-ra(-ah) (an architectural term)
búr-ra-bé openly, publicly
i7 buranun(-na) Euphrates
bùru (bùr) (area measure = 18 iku = 1800 sar = ca.
63,510 sq. meters) (Yuhong, AV Klein 391)
bùru(d) (bùr) n. hole, pit, depths; depth; v. to make a
hole, pierce, break into, burgle; to be deep, deepen; to
penetrate, understand; adj. deep
buru4 mušen (a bird of prey or a vulture, OS); raven (Ur
III onward) (Veldhuis, Education 226-228)
buru5 mušen (bur5) (a small bird that lives in flocks,
possibly a sparrow); locust (OB and later) (Veldhuis,
Education 229-231)
buru5-habrud(-da) mušen partridge(?) (işşur hurri)
(Veldhuis, Education 231-233)
buru14 harvest, crop; harvest time
D
da, da(g) side; near (cf. Krecher, ASJ 9, 88 n. 39)
DA → á
da-ga-an, da-ga-na, daggan(KI.GIŠGAL) bedroom,
private room (Krecher, ASJ 9, 88 n. 39; Civil, AV
Biggs 18) (dakkannu)
da-gi4-a, dag-gi4-a district, ward, city quarter (bābtu);
cf. ùsar da-gi4-a neighbor (Steinkeller, Sales
Documents 242f.)
da-ri, da-rí lasting, eternal (cf. Akk. dārû)
da-ri/rí-šè forever
da - ri to lead at one's side (so Selz, ASJ 17, 251ff.,
who reads the verbal root as /dri/; cf. maš-da-ri-a)
dab5, dab, dab6/da5(b) to fasten onto (-a), hold onto,
detain; to seize, take (with -e/a); to be attached to,
employed at (-da) (often elliptical for šu - dab5)
dabin(ZÌ.ŠE) barley meal or flour
dadag v. and adj. (to be) (cultically) pure, (legally)
exonerated
dag to move, run about, roam
dag-gi4-a → da-gi4-a
daĝal v. & adj. (to be) wide, broad, vast, far-reaching,
widespread; n. breadth
daĝal-bé broadly
daĝal - tag to spread wide
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