šumēlum

From Proto-Semitic *śimaʔl- (“left hand/side”). Cognate with Arabic شِمَال (šimāl) and Biblical Hebrew שְׂמֹאל (śəmoʔl).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈmeː.lum/

šumēlum m (from Old Babylonian on)

1. the left

   Antonyms: 𒍠 (imnum), 𒍠 (imittum)

   1. left side
   2. left hand
   3. (military) left wing (of an army)
   4. neighbour to the left

• šumēlu (non-mimated)
• šumīlum, šumīlu

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