šeleppûm

From Proto-Semitic *šalaḥpaw/y-, *šalapḥaw/y- (“turtle”). Cognate with Arabic سُلَحْفَاة (sulaḥfāh).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ʃe.lepˈpuːm/

šeleppûm m (plural šeleppû) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. turtle
2. a type of snake

• šeleppû (non-mimated)
• šilippû
• šelappû (Neo-Assyrian)

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