# \*301-U-RA (naura)

> light, radiance (personal name or epithet)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: naura
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*nūr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1196/index.md>) 'fire' 1, 'to shine, sparkle' 2, 'light' 3, 'lamp' 4
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*301 · U (u) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: NWR 'shine': janūr, nawarum, Nawar (Gelb AS 21, 28); PN NAWAR-I, written NA-WA-RI (Gelb AS 21 no. 5018)
- Akkadian: namru, older nawru 'bright, shiny, brilliant' (CAD N/1 239)
- Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎊𐎗 *nyr* — nyr 'luminary' (DULAT 644); nr 'sheen, gleam; lamp' (DULAT 633)
- Arabic: nawwara, anāra 'it gave light, shone'; nawr 'blossoms' (Lane 2864)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): \*301-U-RA — light, radiance (personal name), erased

## Commentary

HT 115a, an accounting tablet with GRA+BOSm; in erasure on .2 (GORILA I 188–91). √n-w-r 'to shine, give light': Ug. nwr /nāra/, /yanūr-/ 'to be bright, shine' (Huehnergard 2012, 50), nrt 'lamp'; Heb. נוּר nūr, nēr 'lamp'; Ar. nūr. 'Light' is a common name element: Amorite Niwru and ʾAbu-niwra (Gelb 1980, nos. 5026, 162), Ebla nu-ru₁₂-ud 'light' (Pagan 1998, row 3919). Rival: *301 = r, which gives r-u-ra, an awkward reduplication. See NU-RO.

## Rival readings

- naʿar: servant, retainer (root n-ʿ-r): Heb. נַעַר naʿar 'lad, servant, retainer'. Suits a tablet listing people and grain just as well.

## Same root

- [NU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-RO/index.md>) (nūr-)
- [\*47-NU-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-NU-RA-JA/index.md>) (Šū-nūraya)
- [JA-I-NWA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-I-NWA-RO/index.md>) (yā ʾanwaru)
- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>) (qāmī šū-nāra)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*301-U-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*301-U-RA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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