bāṣum

Unknown, but compare Biblical Hebrew בֹּץ (boṣ, “mud, silt”), a hapax legomenon in the Bible.

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

bāṣum m (from Old Babylonian on, Babylonian, Old Assyrian)

1. sand

• bāṣu (non-mimated)
• baṣṣu (later)

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