našru
Akkadian
Etymology
Borrowed from a West Semitic language, from Proto-West Semitic *našr-. Compare Arabic نَسْر (nasr) and Biblical Hebrew נֶשֶׁר (nɛ́šɛr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnaʃ.ru/
Noun
našru m
- (lexical, hapax) eagle
- Synonym: erûm
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Usage notes
This term was a late replacement for the original Akkadian erûm.
References
- “našru”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 11, N, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1980, page 79a
- Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (1976), “našru”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
- Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 210