pūtum

From Proto-Semitic *piʔat- (side, edge, front). Cognate with Arabic فِئَة (fiʔa, “class, division”) and Biblical Hebrew פֵּאָה (peʾɔ, “edge, corner”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.tum/

pūtum f (construct state pūt or pūti, plural pâtum or pūtātu) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. forehead, front, brow
2. facade
3. (with ina) opposite, in front of

The plural form pūtātu is found in Middle Assyrian and Middle Babylonian texts.

• pūtu (non-mimated)

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