barbarum
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Akkadian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Likely borrowed from Sumerian 𒌨𒁇𒊏 (urbarak, literally “outside dog, wild predator”). Compare Arabic بَبْر (babr, “tiger”) and Classical Syriac ܒܒܪܐ (bbrʾ, “tiger”), not understood in their direct origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈbar.ba.rum/
Noun[edit]
barbarum m (plural barbarū)
- wolf
- (Standard Babylonian, astronomy, with determiner 𒀯) the name of one of the twelve stars of Enlil
Alternative forms[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
- barbar uršim (scorpion)
References[edit]
- “barbaru”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
- Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “barbaru(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
barbarum
- inflection of barbarus:
Noun[edit]
barbārum f
References[edit]
- “barbarum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- barbarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.