kišpum

From the verb kašāpum (“to cast spells, bewitch”). Cognate with Hebrew כשוף (“kishput, an act of magic”).

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

kišpum m (plural kišpū) (from Old Babylonian on)

1. (usually in the plural) sorcery, evil spell, witchcraft

• kišpu (non-mimated)

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