sāsum

From Proto-Semitic *sūs- (“moth”). Cognate with Arabic سُوس (sūs, “moth”) and Biblical Hebrew סָס (sɔs, “clothes moth”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.sum/

sāsum m (plural sāsū) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. moth
2. (Ras Shamra, Standard Babylonian) a type of stone

• sāsu (non-mimated)

• “sāsu”, 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) “sāsu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library, page 319a