adānum
Akkadian
Etymology
Compare Arabic مَوْعِد (mawʿid, “date, appointment”) and Biblical Hebrew מוֹעֵד (moʕéḏ, “appointed time”).
Pronunciation
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /aˈdaː.num/
Noun
adānum m (plural adānātum f)
- fixed date, time limit (a moment in time at the end of a specified period)
- period of time (of predetermined length or characterized by a sequence of specific events)
Alternative forms
- adānu (non-mimated)
- ḫadānum, ḫadiānum, adiānum (Old Babylonian)
- adannum, adannu, adānum, adānu (Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian)
- ḫidānu, ḫadānu (Mari)
- edannu, edānu (Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian)
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References
- “adannu”, 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), “adānum”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag