# DU-PA₃-NA (Dubbān)

> personal name, 'bear' with -ān

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

- Reading: Dubbān
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dubb-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2153/index.md>) 'bear'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · PA₃ (pa₃) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: AZ = dab₆-bù, da-bù 'bear' (GlOS 1, 139)
- Akkadian: dabû, dabbu 'bear', in Old Akkadian personal names before the literary texts (CAD D 17; AHw 148)
- Hebrew: *dōb* — dōb 'bear' (1 Sam 17:34), pl. dubbîm (2 Kgs 2:24)
- Arabic: *dubb* — dubb 'bear' (Lane 841)

## Attestations

- [HT 115b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115b/index.md>): DU-PA₃-NA 1 — personal name, 'bear' with -ān, 1

## Commentary

HT 115b .2 DU-PA₃-NA 1, whole and undotted, after TI-NU-JA · NU-WI · GRA ½ and before KU-RU-MA · I ½, on a palimpsest (GORILA I 191). Amorite DABIN-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 1411) and the root DBB in Gelb's glossary; Arabian DBN (Harding 1971, 234). Rival: Harding's own gloss, dibbān 'fly'. One document.

## In the onomasticon

- [DU-PA₃-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DU-PA~E2~82~83-NA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; CAD D; Lane
- AHw: von Soden, Wolfram (1981), Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Bd. I–III. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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
- 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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