# KA-SA-RU (Qaṣṣāru)

> Qaṣṣāru 'Fuller' (personal name); compare Linear B ka-sa-ro; rival Kaṣṣāru 'donkey driver'

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

- Reading: Qaṣṣāru
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳaṣṣār-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3782/index.md>) 'fuller'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · SA (sa) · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *qaṣṣāru* — ga-za-ru₁₂, a personal name, read /qaṣṣāru/ 'fuller' or /kaṣṣāru/ 'donkey driver' (Pagan 1998, rows 1979–1980)
- Arabic: *qaṣṣār* — qaṣṣār 'one who beats and washes and whitens clothes' (Lane 2535); qaṣṣara 'he beat, washed, and whitened the cloth' (Lane 2534)
- Syriac: *qāṣrā* — qāṣrā 'fuller' (HALOT 819, s.v. ʿên rōgēl 'spring of the fuller')
- Linear B: ka-sa-ro, a man at Knossos, KN C(2) 912, Dv 1450

## Attestations

- [HT 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10b/index.md>): KA-SA-RU 6 — personal name, 'Fuller', 6; rival Kaṣṣāru 'donkey driver'

## Commentary

HT 10b .3 KA-SA-RU 6, a personnel entry on a face written over an erasure; the three signs are clear (GORILA I 21). Ebla ga-za-ru₁₂, read /qaṣṣāru/ 'fuller' or /kaṣṣāru/ 'donkey driver' (Pagan 1998, rows 1979–1980), sign for sign with its vowels; Sanmartín files ga-za-ru₁₂ under q-ṣ-r 'to be short' (GlOS 1, 355). Linear B ka-sa-ro is a man's name at Knossos (KN C(2) 912.8, Dv 1450), with no Greek interpretation; final -RU against Linear B -ro, as I-TA-NU against u-ta-no. Ugarit has DUMU ka-ša₂-ri (ORACC P503760). Rivals: Kaṣṣāru 'donkey driver'; Amorite Kašerum (Gelb 1980, no. 4000), √kṯr (3548), which needs S for ṯ, against KA-TA-RE. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; GlOS 1; Gelb 1980
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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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