Elementary Sumerian Glossary

KU3.AN iron; (a tin-antimony alloy?) (amūtu) (Reiter,
AOAT 249, 353-357; 384-388)
kù-babbar, also kù-bar6-bar6 (or -bábbar) (Ur III
and earlier esp. in Lagaš texts) silver
kù-dím silversmith, goldsmith
kù-ĝál → gú-gal
kù-luh-ha refined, purified silver (Reiter, AOAT 89)
ku3-NE(-a) (a type of precious metal) (Reiter, AOAT
249, 85)
kù-sig17(GI) (kù-si22(GI)), kù-sí(g)(ZI) gold (the
reading guškin is obsolete) (Civil, JCS 28, 183f.)
kù-sig17-huš red gold
kù-zu clever, experienced, expert
ku4(r) (kur9) to enter; to make enter, bring in; to
become, turn into, be declared to be; to be made liable
for (For a reading kux(dr) of the DU sign in OS and Ur
III see Krecher, ZA 77, 7-21. Wr. LIL and ŠE+ŠU in
Ur III) (Veldhuis, AV Sigrist 226-8)
ku5(dr), kud(r) to cut, cut off; to decide (verdicts)
ku5-da (kud-da) turtle, tortise
ku6 (kua) fish (Englund, BBVO 10, 227-230)
ku6-a-dé fresh fish
ku6-izi smoked fish
ku7(d), ku7-ku7 sweet
ku10(g), kukku5 black, dark; darkness (often
reduplicated: ku10-ku10 or kúkku; see also gíg) (Civil,
EBLA 1975-1985, 155 n. 32)
kux(dr) → ku4, túm
kul handle (of a tool)
kum → gum
kúm v. to heat; adj. hot
kun tail; mouth of a river, canal
kun-zi-da canal storage basin, reservoir
giš kun4-5, kun (syllabic) stairs, ladder (simmiltu)
(Heimpel, CUSAS 5, 176)
kúnga → anše-kúnga
kur mountain; foreign land; netherworld
kur-gal Great Mountain (standard epithet of Enlil)
kur-gi16 mušen , kur-gi(4) mušen (domesticated) goose(?) ( >
Akk. kurkû) (Veldhuis, Education, 263f.)
kur-ku/ku4 torrent, waves (agû); triumph
kúr v. and adj. (to be) different, strange, foreign; (to
be) hostile, inimical; to change, alter
kur4 → gur4
kur6 → šuku
kur7 inspection (also read kurum7 or gúrum, written
both IGI.ERÍN and IGI.GAR) (Civil, AV Biggs 28)
kur7/kurum7 - a5 to inspect
kurun, kúrun (a beer or wine) (karānu, kurunnu)
kurušda small-cattle breeder, animal fattener (some
read gurušda or g/kurušta) (Civil, AV Biggs 29)
kuš skin, hide; leather
KUŠ.A.EDIN.LÁ → kuš ùmmu
kúš to be(come) tired, weary, exhausted; to be
troubled; to sigh; to ponder, deliberate; to rest, relax, be
calm, calmed, soothed
kùš cubit (a length measure = 1/6 gi = ca. 0.5 meter)
kùš mould
kuš7(SAHAR) (newest reading is šùš, at least in some
periods, possibly to be distinguished from a different
occupational term sahar) equerry, groom, page,
personal attendant (Beal, NABU 1992/2; Steinkeller,
Sale Documents 180) (kizû)
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