barbarum

Likely borrowed from Sumerian 𒌨𒁇𒊏 (urbarak, literally “outside dog, wild predator”). Compare Arabic بَبْر (babr, “tiger”) and Classical Syriac ܒܒܪܐ (bbrʾ, “tiger”), not understood in their direct origin.

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.ba.rum/

barbarum m (plural barbarū)

1. wolf
2. (Standard Babylonian, astronomy, with determiner 𒀯) the name of one of the twelve stars of Enlil

• barbaru (non-mimated)

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

barbarum

1. inflection of barbarus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter singular

barbārum f

1. genitive plural of barba

• “barbarum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• barbarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.