Elementary Sumerian Glossary

(PSD B 18 'rod, prod' is not correct; see Civil, Oriental
Institute website corrections to PSD) (Civil, AV Biggs
18)
ba-ri/rí-ga (a large measuring vessel = 60 sìla in Ur
III)
d ba-ú chief goddess of Ĝirsu, consort of Ninĝirsu (also
read d ba-ba6) (see Marchesi, Or 71 (2002) 161-172)
ba-za cripple, dwarf
bà(EŠ) v. to halve; n. half
babbar, bar6-bar6 (PSD bábbar) v. and adj. (to be)
white, shining
bad(r) to open up, spread wide, be wide apart,
separate; to untie, unravel, reveal; to be distant, remote,
removed; to thresh (see recently Krecher, AV Kutscher
111-116)
bad, bad-rá, bad-da open(ed), spread wide; remote
bàd (city) wall, fortification
bàd(-da) high (cf. ùn)
bàd-si parapet
báhar potter (Sallaberger Töpfer passim)
bal to cross (over), pass by or through; to turn over,
around, aside, upside down, against; to change,
exchange; to pour out (liquid)
bal-a-ri opposite side, shore
bal-bal-e (an OB hymn type)
giš bala spindle; rod, pin
bala (rotating) term of office or service, turn of duty;
reign; cf. bala-gub-ba term of duty
bala(-šè) - a5 transport (for trade)
balaĝ harp (some translate 'lyre'); (a large drum?); (an
OB and later eme-sal lamentation, part of the temple
liturgy) (Civil, AV Biggs 18; Veldhuis, AfO 44/45,
120) (balangu)
balaĝ-di harp player, lamentation singer
giš ban → giš pan
bán, ba-an (later with wood determinative) (a
container and capacity measure = 6 sìla in Pre-
Sargonic texts, 10 sìla thereafter) (Steinkeller, Or 51,
359f.)
bànda, bàn-da (or bànda da ) small(er), young(er),
minor, junior; short (time); impetuous, wild (note that
Borger, AbZ reads banda3 rather than Deimel's
banda1, a practice now currenct)
bànda young one, child, infant; offspring, progeny;
attendant
giš banšur table; offering table, altar
bappir, bàppir beer bread (a baked loaf of brewing
ingredients)
bar to (make) lie/be outside, go away, send out, set
aside, release, split open; to delimit, allot (fields)
bar outside, exterior; outer appearance; body; back,
edge; fleece
bar alien, strange; cf. lú-bar-ra foreigner, stranger
bar "liver" (as a seat of emotions), mood, spirits
bar NOUN-ak-a or bar-PRONOUN-a because of,
instead of, with regard to, e.g. bar-bi-a because of this
bar - a5 to examine, test, put to trial
bar-da, bar-dù-a crosspiece, crossbar
túg
bar-dul5 (a common garment); (describing a goat or
a goat hide)
bar-ĝál unshorn, with unplucked fleece
bar-lá (a canal basin?)
bar-rim4 arid, dry land
túg bar-si sash, shawl
bar-su(-ga), bar-sù(-a) with plucked fleece, with
fleece removed
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