adānum

Compare Arabic مَوْعِد (mawʕid, “date, appointment”) and Biblical Hebrew מוֹעֵד (moʕéḏ, “appointed time”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /aˈdaː.num/

adānum m (plural adānātum f)

1. fixed date, time limit (a moment in time at the end of a specified period)
2. period of time (of predetermined length or characterized by a sequence of specific events)

• adānu (non-mimated)
• ḫadānum, ḫadiānum, adiānum (Old Babylonian)
• adannum, adannu, adānum, adānu (Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian)
• ḫidānu, ḫadānu (Mari)
• edannu, edānu (Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian)

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