KU-RU-KU

saffron, crocus (PN from plant term)

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Reading
kurkū
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kurkum- ‘saffron’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewkarkōmkarkōm ‘saffron’, Song 4:14 (HALOT 498)
  • AramaicJewish Aramaic and Syriac kurkəmā ‘saffron’ (HALOT 498)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 87KU-RU-KU 1saffron (or saffron-worker PN)

Commentary

HT 87: KU-RU-KU 1, fifth of six men at one unit each under the heading *21F-TU-NE · MA-KA-RI-TE ·, Scribe 9: a personal name from the plant word. kurkū ‘saffron, crocus’: Akk. kurkānû, an aromatic plant (CAD K 560), Heb. כַּרְכֹּם karkōm ‘saffron’ (Song 4:14; HALOT 497); Greek κρόκος is a Semitic loan. One attestation. See *21F-TU-NE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon