ūṣum

From Proto-Semitic *ḥVṯ̣ṯ̣- (“arrow”). Cognate with Arabic حُظْوَة (ḥuẓwa, “small arrow”) and Biblical Hebrew חֵץ (ḥeṣ, “arrow”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.sˤum/

ūṣum m (plural ūṣū) (Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian)

1. arrowhead
2. arrow

• ūṣu (non-mimated)
• uṣṣu

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