šaprum

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃap.rum/

Nominalised participle of 𒊭𒉺𒀸 (šapārum, “to send”). Compare Arabic سَفِير (safīr, “envoy, ambassador”).

šaprum m (plural šaprūtum m or šaprātum f) (from Old Babylonian on)

1. messenger, envoy
2. (Neo-Assyrian) variation of 𒊭𒁀𒅈𒌈 (šapartum, “pledge”)

• šapru (non-mimated)

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

From Proto-Semitic *ṯapr- (“vulva”). Cognate with Arabic ثَفْر (ṯafr).

šaprum m (construct state šapar, plural šaprū) (Babylonian, Elam, Boghazkeui)

1. thigh (contextually often applied to female genitals)

• šapru (non-mimated)

• “šapru A”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[2], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šapru”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library