šēlebum

From Proto-Semitic *ṯaʕlab- (“fox”). Cognate with Arabic ثَعْلَب (ṯaʕlab) and Biblical Hebrew שׁוּעָל (šuʕɔ́l).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃeː.le.bum/

šēlebum m (plural šēlebū) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. fox
2. an unidentified star
3. a kind of fish
4. a kind of bird or locust

• šēlebu (non-mimated)
• šellebu
• šēlubu (Assyrian)

• “šēlebu”, 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) “šēlebu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library