# KA-KU-PA (kawkab) > Star (place name, as Mari Kabkab) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kawkab - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*kabkab-]() 'star' - Kind: Toponym - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) · KU (ku) · PA (pa) ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎁𐎋𐎁 *kbkb* — kbkb 'star' (GlOS 1, 297) - Eblaite: ᵈMUL = gag-gáb 'star', also a DN; names ga-kab, ga-ba-ga-bù (GlOS 1, 297) - Mari: Kabkab, ka-ab-ka-ab, a place name (M.7630:4; FM II 338; MTT I/1, s.v. KABKAB) ## Attestations - [HT 16](): KA-KU-PA - [HT Wc 3015](): KA-KU-PA CYP - [HT Wc 3016](): KA-KU-PA \*304+PA CYP+D ## Commentary HT 16 KA-KU-PA ·, the heading over DI-NA-U ⅛, WA ⅓, *188+KU ⅜ and SA-PO ZE 1⁄16; on the roundels HT Wc 3015 KA-KU-PA with CYP and HT Wc 3016 with *304+PA and CYP+D, a party receiving cyperus. kawkab 'star', the Semitic word as a place name, as Mari's town Kabkab (MTT I/1, s.v. Kabkab): Hebrew kôkāb (HALOT 463), Akkadian kakkabu, Arabic kawkab. Three attestations, all Haghia Triada. ## In the onomasticon - [KA-KU-PA](): Place, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT; MTT I/1; GlOS 1; FM II - 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 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-KU-PA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.