# KI-RA (kirû) > garden, orchard; rival qīru 'hot bitumen' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kirû - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*kiry-]() 'garden' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: KI (ki) · RA (ra) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *kirû* — kirû 'garden, orchard, palm grove' (CAD K 411); qīru 'hot bitumen' (CAD Q 270), the rival ## Attestations - [HT 103](): KI-RA 5 ¹⁄₂ — garden, orchard; rival qīru 'hot bitumen' - [ZA 8](): KI-RA — garden, orchard (heading); alternatively liquid bitumen ## Commentary HT 103 KI-RA 5½, after DA-KU-SE-NE 1; ZA 8 opens KI-RA · A-TA-RE · NI 'figs' ½. kirû 'garden, orchard' (CAD K 411), base kiri- (Huehnergard 1997, 126), fits these horticultural entries. Rival: qīru 'hot bitumen' (CAD Q 270), spelled qi-ra in the Middle Assyrian Laws (KAV 1 v 76), with KI writing qi. ## References - Reading: di Mino; GORILA I; CAD K; CAD Q; Huehnergard 1997 - Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45) - 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 - CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. 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/KI-RA/ 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 add28e94.