# DA-QE-RA (ḏā-Qīra)

> the (district) of Qīr, the walled town; heading opposite KA-PA 'village'; rival diḳaru 'pot'

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

- Reading: ḏā-Qīra
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḏī-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0877/index.md>) 'he who, that which' (masculine demonstrative/relative) + [\*qiyr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0319/index.md>) 'wall'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · QE (qe) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Moabite: *qr* — qr 'city' (Mesha 11, 12, 24, 29; HALOT 1099)
- Hebrew: קִיר *qîr* — qîr קִיר 'wall' (HALOT 1099); qîr Môʾāb beside ʿār Môʾāb (Isa 15:1)
- Akkadian: *diqāru* — diqāru 'round-bottomed bowl' (CAD D 157), the rival

## Attestations

- [HT 120](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT120/index.md>): DA-QE-RA — bowl or vessel; perhaps a vessel-account heading
- [HT 57a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT57a/index.md>): DA-QE-RA
- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>): DA-QE-RA

## Commentary

KA-PA and DA-QE-RA head the two sections of HT 6a; DA-QE-RA heads HT 120, grain to DA-ME, KI-RE-TA-NA and PA-I-TO, against HT 102 under KA-PA (Uchitel 2003, 82). ḏā 'the one of' (cf. DA-NA-SI) + qīr 'walled town', Moabite qr 'city' (HALOT 1099); towns beside villages, Heb. ʿārîm // kᵊpārîm (1 Chr 27:25). Qīr is a town name, as Heb. Qîr Môʾāb, Qîr-Ḥereś (HALOT 1100); a town name is diptotic, genitive -a (Fischer 2002, §§152–153; Ug. ʾugarita, Huehnergard 2012, 40), as Amorite ḏū before a name: ZU-I-LA, ZU-ᵈIŠ-ḪA-RA (Gelb 1980, nos. 6596, 6598). Rivals: diqāru 'bowl' (CAD D 157), Ug. dqr 'pot' (DULAT 276). See KA-PA.

## Same root

- [DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU/index.md>) (du)
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī)
- [DU-MA-I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-MA-I-NA/index.md>) (ḏū-maʿīna)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [DU-ZU-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-ZU-WA/index.md>) (ḏū-ṯuwāʕ)
- [KA-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-*305/index.md>) (ka-ḏā)
- [SE-WA-AU-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-WA-AU-DE/index.md>) (šawaʿ-dē)

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-QE-RA/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Uchitel 2003; HALOT; Fischer 2002; Huehnergard 2012; Gelb 1980; CAD D; DULAT
- 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
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- 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
- 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
- Uchitel, Alexander (2003), HT 94. Minos,37–38 (2002–2003),Universidad de Salamanca,81–88

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