abdu

Akkadian

Root
'-b-d
1 term

Etymology

Borrowed from a West Semitic language. Compare Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd) and Biblical Hebrew עֶבֶד (ʕɛ́ḇɛḏ).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈab.du/

Noun

abdu m (Standard Babylonian)

1.  servant, slave

Cuneiform spellings

Phonetic
𒀊𒁺 (ab-du)

References

• “abdu”, 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) “abdu”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Indonesian

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Noun

abdu (first-person possessive abduku, second-person possessive abdumu, third-person possessive abdunya)

1. abdi