salāmum
Akkadian
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Etymology
Cognate with Arabic سَلِمَ (salima, “to be free”) and Biblical Hebrew שָׁלַם (šɔlám, “to be in covenant of peace”).
Pronunciation
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /saˈlaː.mum/
Verb
salāmum (G, i, durative isallim, perfect istallim, preterite islim, imperative silim) (from Old Babylonian on)
- to make peace, become reconciled, be at peace
Alternative forms
- salāmu (non-mimated)
- selēmu (Neo-Babylonian)
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References
- “salāmu”, 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) “salāmu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library