Elementary Sumerian Glossary

šub to (let) fall, be felled, fell; to throw down, away; to
forsake, abandon, dismiss; to give up, leave off
šub-ba fallen, collapsed, demolished, abandoned
ŠUB-lugal royal subordinate, vassal(?) (a class of
workers in Presargonic texts)
šuba(ZA.MÚŠ), šúba(ZA.MÙŠ) bright, shining, pure;
multicolored
(na4) šùba(MÙŠxZA), šuba agate(?) (šubû)
šubun → ĝišbun
šubur → subur
šùd, šu12 n. prayer; v. to pray
šùd - du11 to say a prayer, pray (Attinger, Eléments
726-728)
šùd - rá to pray
giš šudul(4) yoke (some read šudun)
šuku(dr) subsistance allotment/plot (šuku is the
conventional reading, ePSD reads šúkur, and some
now read pad(r). The value kur6 does not exist; see
Steinkeller, Third-Millennium Legal Texts 69, also
Civil, AV Biggs 29 s.v. kurum.) (kurummatu)
šukur thorn, needle
gi šukur reed fence, corral (Civil, AuOr 5, 22; Römer,
AfO 40/41, 30ff.; Michalowski, Lamentation p. 75)
giš šukur, urudu šukur, spear, lance
šul noble, valiant, young man (or the like) (some now
read sul)
šum to slaughter
urudu šum saw
urudu šum-gam curved(?) saw
šúm(SUM) to give; to pay (in commodities or a
combination of a metal and commodity) The standard
older reading sum may also be correct in some
contexts; see Zgoll, AOAT 246, 311.
šúr to be furious, enraged
šúr, šu-ur6(-rá) adj. & adv. furious, angry, haughty;
angrily (Civil, AV Biggs 31 s.v. /sumur/)
šúr-bé furiously, angrily
šúr-dù mušen falcon
šurim(LAGABxGUD:GUD), šùrim(LAGABx GUD)
dung
šuš, šúš → šú
šùš → kuš7
šutur(MAH) quality cloth
T
ta(-àm) what?
tab to be parallel, lie parallel to; to double; to twist,
entwine; to link, join, unite; to lock; to sweep away,
devastate (sapānu) (cf. Michalowski, Lamentation p.
71; Civil, NABU 1987/49)
tab-ba companion; pair, twin; together
táb, tab to burn, glow
tag to touch, prod; to touch wrongly, profane, spoil; to
weave; to overlay, face, embellish; to apply, treat with;
to broadcast (seed-grain, cf. Maekawa, ASJ 15, 112)
TAG → sub6
tag4, tak4 to leave, leave over, leave for the benefit or
use of; to abandon, divorce; to remove (see Civil,
AuOr 8, 111 in disc. of šu - tak4)
tál(PI) to be broad, wide; to widen, expand; to spread
out, lay out (cf. sal)
tál(-la) wide
tan4 → dan6
tar to divide, separate, cut Cf. nam - tar
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