ašāgum

Unknown. Compare perhaps Arabic شَوْك (šawk, “thorn”), عَوْسَج (ʕawsaj), and Biblical Hebrew שֵׂךְ (śeḵ, “thorn”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /aˈʃaː.ɡum/

ašāgum m (Babylonian, Boghazkeui)

1. a common spiny plant, perhaps a camelthorn

• ašāgu (non-mimated)
• ešēgu (Boghazkeui)

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