# A-RU (Ḫaru)

> Ḫaru (Hurrian personal name); rival the Semitic name Ḫayru 'Excellent'

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

- Reading: Ḫaru
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: A (a) · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Nuzi Ḫa-a-ru, [Ḫa]-a-ru(m), f. of Alkiya (NPN 55); element ḫaru, cross-referred to ḫar 'H.? Anatolian?', with Ḫa-ru-se-en-ni at Ras Shamra (NPN 214)
- Eblaite: *ha-ru₁₂ ḫayru* — ha-ru₁₂ ḫayru 'excellent', the rival (Pagan 1998, row 2259); *ḫVyVr- 'be favourable'

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): A-RU 4 ¹⁄₄ — Ḫaru (Hurrian personal name); rival the Semitic name Ḫayru 'Excellent'
- [HT 49a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49a/index.md>): A-RU 1 — Hurrian personal name, 1; rival Semitic Ḫayru 'Excellent'

## Commentary

HT 9a A-RU 4¼, the last recipient of the wine list under SA-RO · TE · VIN, before KU-RO 31¾; HT 49a A-RU 1 in a name list with TU-SU-PU₂ Tešub. ḫa-ru sign for sign, ḫ unwritten as in E-PA-TU Ḫebat: the Nuzi name Ḫa-a-ru (NPN 55), an element NPN refers to ḫar, 'H.? Anatolian?' (NPN 214). Rival: the Eblaite name ha-ru₁₂ ḫayru 'excellent' (Pagan 1998, row 2259), which needs the coda y unwritten.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, 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)

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