# A-DA-RO (ʾAddar)

> Addar, 'Mighty' (personal name)

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

- Reading: ʾAddar
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾaddīr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1340/index.md>) 'noble, notable' 1, 'majestic, powerful' 2, 'assembly of elders, council' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DA (da) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: ʾAddār (אַדָּר), son of Bela (1 Chr 8:3; HALOT 17); place names ʾAddārâ (Josh 15:3), Ḥăṣar-ʾAddār (Num 34:4)
- Ebla: *ʾa₅-da-ru₁₂ ʾadaru* — ʾa₅-da-ru₁₂ ʾadaru 'strong' (Pagan 1998, row 130); a-da-ra 'the strong one' (row 558)
- Ugaritic: *adr* — adr 'wonderful, magnificent, strong; noble' (DULAT 21)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH5/index.md>): A-DA-RO GRA 40 — personal name ('Mighty'; Hebrew ʾAddār, 1 Chr 8:3)

## Commentary

Recipient slot on ARKH 5, parallel to A-DU-NI-TA-NA: A-DA-RO GRA 40[+, the entry wrapping past the broken edge to *131B 6 at the start of .3 (GORILA III 16–17). Final -O is a dead vowel; GORILA dots RO, and the .3 logogram is written over an erasure. Cf. A-DA-RA (KN Zf 31). Rival: Akk. adru 'threshing floor' (CAD A/1 129), against which one entry carries both grain and must (cf. Num 18:27). One attestation. See DI-DE-RU.

## Same root

- [DI-DE-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-DE-RU/index.md>) (ʾaddīru)
- [DI-RE-DI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-RE-DI-NA/index.md>) (ʾaddīr-dīnā)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DA-RO/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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 III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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