Elementary Sumerian Glossary

a-ma-ru-kam It is urgent! Without fail! (lit. It is (like)
water of the tempest !)
a-mah high water, flood, inundation
a-na(-àm) what, whatever (interrogative and relative)
a-na-aš(-àm), a-na-šè(-àm) why
a-na-gin7 how, why; thus, so
a-naĝ libation; drinking water
a-ne he, she, this one (OS for e-ne)
a-níĝin pond, puddle, standing water
a-nir lament; grief (Emesal a-še-er)
d a-nun-na(-k) (a grouping of high gods)
a-pa4 gutter, pipe; (as beer and water libation pipe, see
Civil, AuOr 5, 33)
a-ra-li (poetic term for the netherworld; the desert
between Bad-Tibira and Uruk where Dumuzi pastured
his flocks and was killed, see Jacobsen, JAOS 103,
194)
a-ra-zu, a-rá-zu, rá-zu prayer, supplication (for
writings see Bauer, AV Klein 24-25)
a-rá way, path, course; state, condition; multiplied by,
"times" (math.) ; a-rá N-kam for the nth time
a - ri, a - ru to inseminate, engender, beget
a-ri-a, `à-ri-a wasteland, desert (Civil, AuOr 5, 33)
a - ru to dedicate, donate to a deity
a-ru-a temple donation, votive gift
a-ru12(EN)-da (Pre-Sarg. and Sarg.) copper
a-sig, a-si(-ig)-ga, a-sa-ga clear, clean water (mû
zakûtu) (syllabic for sig5 and sa6(g), see Bauer, AfO
40/41, 95)
a-sis salty, brackish water
a-šà(g), aša5(g)(GÁNA) field, parcel (for OS aša5 see
Civil, JCS 25, 171f.; Powell, JCS 25, 178-184)
a šà-ga šu - du11 to inseminate, engender (later
elliptically just šu - du11)
a-še-er → a-nir
A.TIR → eša
a - tu5, (OS) a - tu17(A.TU5) to bathe, wash
a-tu5-a bath, bathing ritual
a-zu, a-su physician
á, ax(DA) arm, wing; branch; side (cf. da); (knife)
edge; strength, force; work-force; work-period/unit
(measured in days); wage(s), hire, fee, payment,
expenditure (Heimpel, CUSAS 5, 81-84); point in time;
horns, antlers (for ax see Attinger, ZA 87, 112)
á - áĝ to command, give orders or instructions to
someone (-da-) regarding (-ši-)
á-áĝ-ĝá instruction, order; news (Attinger, ZA 87, 15)
á-an handle(?) (Attinger, ZA 87, 115f.)
á-an(-zú-lum) date palm spadix; broom
á-an-kára, an-kára, en-kára (a divine or royal
weapon or staff) (Attinger, ZA 87, 182, reads á ankára)
á-áš → áš
á - bad to open, spread the arms, wings
á-bad opened, outstretched arms, wings
á - dah to help (PSD and ePSD now read tah)
á-dah help, aid; helper
á-dam settlement, habitation
á - dar to seize illegally, confiscate
á-dàra horns of wild goats, deer antlers (Steinkeller,
BSA 63 n. 24) (see dàra)
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