# KA-RU (karru) > pasture, meadow (estate heading) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: karru - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*karr-]() 'pasture' - Kind: Toponym - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) · RU (ru) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: כַּר *kar* — כַּר kar 'pasture, meadow' (Isa 30:23 kar nirḥāb; Ps 65:14); also 'lamb, ram' (Deut 32:14; Amos 6:4) ## Attestations - [HT 97a](): KA-RU \*307+\*307 VIR+KA 82 - [HT 75](): KA-RU\[ ## Commentary HT 97a opens KA-RU · *307+*307 · VIR+KA 82, then *327 33, KA-NU-TI 25, PA-I-TO 6: the heading slot of HT 85a A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?], 'pasture-sanctuary: men'. HT 75 KA-RU[, broken after RU (GORILA I 125). karru 'pasture', Heb. kar 'pasture' (Isa 30:23; HALOT 496), the geminate written single. Rivals: Akkadian kāru 'quay, harbour, trading station' (CAD K 231), an East Semitic word, for the harbour at Kommos; and a divine name, as A-DU heads HT 85a. ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT; CAD K - 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 K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RU/ 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.