ālum

From Proto-Semitic *ʔahl- (“tent camp”). Cognate with Arabic أَهْل (ʔahl, “kinfolk”) and Biblical Hebrew אֹהֶל (ʔóhɛl, “tent”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.lum/

ālum m (construct state āl or āli, plural ālānū or ālānû) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. city, town

   𒀀𒈝 𒂊𒇻𒌑𒌝 [ālum elûm] ― a-lum e-lu-u₂-um ― upper city

   𒁕𒀀𒀀𒉡 𒀀𒈾 𒁍𒄷𒌨 𒀀𒇷𒅎 𒅋𒇷𒆪

   [dayyānū ana puḫur ālim illikū]

   da-a-a-nu a-na pu-ḫu-ur a-li-im il-li-ku

   The judges went to the assembly of the city.

2. village, manor, estate
3. fort, military strongpoint

• ālu (non-mimated)

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