Template:Lex/B


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ba-ab-si: it is more (conjugation prefix + inanimate direct object prefix + 'to be full, sufficient').

ba-al: to dig (a canal); to channel ('to divide' + 'digging stick').

ba-an: a measure for bread and flour.

(gtildeiš)ba-an: a container.

ba-ba: pudding, malt-sweetened porridge.

ba-da-ra: poniard (Akk. patarru, pattaru).

ba-lá: it is less (conjugation prefix + 'light, deficient').

ba-rV: to fly, flee (cf., bad, bar).

ba-ra: modal prefix - with marû denotes vetitive; with hamtu denotes negative affirmative.

ba-ra(-g): to spread out (cf., bara4).

(gtildeiš)ba-rí-ga: bushel; square-based measuring vessel = 6 bán in all periods (= 36 liters in Old Sumerian period and 60 liters in Old Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian period) (cf., bariga).

ba-ta-tur; ba-ra-tur: it is short (conjugation prefix + earlier/later ablative case prefix + 'small, insufficient').

ba-za: halt or lame person (cf., ki...za).

ba-zi: dispersed ('to divide' + 'to go out').

bàd-nigtildein: circular city wall ('city wall' + 'enclosure, circle').

bàd-si: parapet, battlement ('city wall' + 'long, narrow').

bàd-si-an-na: high battlements ('parapet' + 'to be high' + nominative).

bàd-šul-hi; bàd-sìl-hi: outer wall ('city wall' + 'invader'/'path' + 'numerous').

bala-šè...aka: to transport ('goods delivery' + 'towards' + 'to do').

bala-dab5-ba: worker hired to work for a bala' period ('term' + 'to hire' + nominative).

bala éš-kàr: fraction of an assignment ('term, portion' + 'work assignment').

bala-gub-ba: worker stationed to work for a bala' period ('term' + 'to stand' + nominative).

(gtildeiš)bala...sir5: to spin with a spindle ('spindle' + 'to spin').

balagtilde-íl: harp or lyre carrier ('harp' + 'to lift').

balagtilde-ír-ra: lamentation harp ('harp' + 'lamentation' + genitival a(k)).

bàn-da: (cf., bànda).

bar...aka: to choose; to examine ('to open; to see; to select' + 'to do').

bar-tam...(ak): to choose ('to open; to see; to select' + 'polished, shiny' [ + 'to do']).

(gtildeiš)bar-bar: part of a weaver's loom (shuttle ?).

(gtildeiš)bar-bé-da: a tool.

bar...dab5: to escape ('outside' + 'to take away').

bar...dag: to wander far away ('outside' + 'to roam about').

(gtildeiš)bar-dil: a type of plow (rare outside of lexical lists).

bar-dúb-ba: a good price ('to split, distribute' + 'to knock down' + nominative).

(gtildeiš)bar-e11-dè: rope braiding lever ('outside' + 'to descend' + participial ending).

bar-edin-na: edge of the desert ('side' + 'steppe' + genitival a(k)).

bar-ég-ga: outer side of the levee ('outer side' + 'levee' + genitival a(k)).

bar...gub: to step outside ('outside' + 'to stand').

bar-ta...gub: to withdraw from ('side' + 'to stand aside').

bar-gùn-gùn-nu: chameleon ('sides' + reduplicated 'to be multicolored' + nominative with vowel harmony).

bar...gtildeál: to be outside; to be extra ('outside' + 'to be').

bar-gtildeál-la: unsheared ('fleece' + 'to be in place' + nominative).

bar-lá: part of an irrigation system ('outside' + 'to lift').

bar-LU: one of the best wool blends.

bar-rim4[KAŠ4](-ma): dry land ('to uncover' + 'to travel fast'?; cf., parim).

bar-šègtilde-gtildeá(-e): violence; mist ('outside' + 'to rain' + loc./term. suffix).

(mi)bar-šu-gtildeál: midwife ('innards' + 'hand' + 'to place').

bar-TÚG: a long coat ('outside' + 'woven garment').

bar-ùl[KIB]: dog chain ('outside' + 'leash').

bar-úsurudu: copper-tipped goading stick ('side?; metal?' + 'to drive'; cf., kak-ús).

itibára-zà-gtildear: calendar month 1 at Nippur during Ur III.

bar6-bar6: (some prefer this reading, but cf., bábbar).

bar7-bar7-ra: flames (reduplicated 'to shine' + nominative).

-bi-da(-ke4): and ('with it').

bi-bi-zé: to drip (reduplicated biz, 'to pour').

bi-iz: drop (of water); dripping, melting (cf., biz, 'to pour').

bí-ra: mixed, mingled (bir,'to scatter, mix' + nominative).

bí-za-za: frog (za,'a repeated, monotonous noise').

bir...aka: to sow broadcast (not in furrows with a plow); to dehusk ('to scatter' + 'to do').

bír-bír: (cf., babbar).

bìr-inim-kéš-de6: contractually bound worker ('team' + 'oath, agreement' + 'to bind').

(gtildeiš)bìr-mar: wagon yoke ('team' + 'wagon').

bu-lu-úh...si-il: to belch ('to tear out' + 'to be numerous' + 'saliva' + 'to tear apart').

bu-úh; bu-luh: to tremble ('to tear out' + 'saliva' or 'to clean'; cf., buluh).

gibún-gtildeìr: feet bellows ('to blow; bellows' + 'foot').

gibún-šu: hand bellows ('to blow; bellows' + 'hand').

bur-BÚN.SÁ: a stone vessel.

bur-šál-la: a stone vessel ('stone vessel' + 'measuring pot' + nominative).

buru14...su-su: to have the harvest be drowned (by spring floods bursting the dikes) ('harvest' + 'to drown').