# A-DA-RA (ʾadra)

> the fibula, the pin; rivals ʾAdara 'the Strong One' (epithet), ʾaddart- 'mantle'

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

- Reading: ʾadra
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾdr](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3864/index.md>) 'to embrace; fibula'
- Kind: Material
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DA (da) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *adr* — adr (IV) 'fibula', pl. adrm, pldm b adrm 'garments with fibulae', KTU 4.4:5, beside Akk. edēru 'to hug, embrace' (DULAT 22; GlOS 1, 10); adr 'mighty'; adrt 'of good quality' (DULAT 22)
- Eblaite: *a-da-ra ʾadara* — a-da-ra ʾadara 'the strong one', a name (Pagan 1998, row 558); ʔadar 'strong' (GlOS 1, 10)
- Hebrew: אַדִּיר *ʾaddīr* — אַדִּיר ʾaddīr 'mighty'; אַדֶּרֶת ʾadderet 'mantle' (construct ʾaddart-)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — the fibula, the pin (Ug. adr 'fibula', DULAT 22), first word of the second line

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin, first word of the second line (GORILA IV 155), before TI-DI-TE-QA-TI 'fix it, you have fastened it'. ʾadra 'the fibula', Ug. adr (IV), pl. adrm, pldm b adrm 'garments with fibulae' (KTU 4.4:5; DULAT 22): the pin names itself at the head of the line that speaks of it. Rivals: ʾAdara 'the Strong One', an epithet after DA-DU-MI-NE, QA-MI-*47-NA-RA and A-WA-PI on the first line, sign for sign the Ebla name a-da-ra (Pagan 1998, row 558), ʾadar 'strong' (GlOS 1, 10), cf. Heb. ʾaddīr 'mighty' (Ps 8:2, 93:4); ʾaddart- 'mantle', Heb. ʾadderet (Gen 25:25; Josh 7:21, beside silver and gold; 1 Kgs 19:13), final -t unwritten. Spelling: ʾ dropped, single DA. See DI-DE-RU, A-DA-RO and DI-RE-DI-NA.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; GlOS 1; DULAT
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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