dišpum

Compare Arabic دِبْس (dibs, “molasses”) and Biblical Hebrew דְּבַשׁ (dəḇaš, “honey”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈdiʃ.pum/

dišpum m (construct state dišip) (from Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian on)

1. honey
2. (date) syrup

• dišpu (non-mimated)

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