asum

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sum/

asum f (from Old Akkadian on)

1. myrtle

• asu (non-mimated)
• ašum (Old Assyrian)
• assu (Boghazkeui)

• → Aramaic: ܐܵܣܵܐ / אָסָא (ʾāsā)
  • → Arabic: آس (ʔās)
    • ⇒ Cypriot Arabic: ximplás
    • → Ge'ez: እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas, “myrtle”)
    • → Middle Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (√ حَبّ الْآس (ḥabb al-ʔās))
      • → Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) (learned)
• →⇒ Hebrew: הֲדַס (hăḏás)
  • → Arabic: هَدَس (hadas)
    • → Amharic: ኣደስ (ʾadäs), አደስ (ʾädäs)
    • → Ge'ez: አደስ (ʾädäs)
    • → Swahili: mhadasi
    • → Tigrinya: ኣደስ (ʾadäs)
  • → Aramaic: הֲדַסַא (hăḏasā)
  • → German: Addas f (used once by Heinrich Heine)
  • → Yiddish:

Borrowed from Sumerian 𒊍 (az, “bear”).

asum m (plural asātum f) (Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian)

1. bear

   Synonym: dabûm

• asu (non-mimated)

• “asu A”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], volume 1, A, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1968, page 342
• “asu B”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[2], volume 1, A, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1968, page 344

From asuma +‎ -m.

asum (genitive asumi, partitive asumit)

1. a district, subdistrict, or part of a city

• linnaosa
• rajoon