# KU-RU-MA (kurma / gurma)

> vineyard / mountain with vineyard

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

- Reading: kurma / gurma
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*karm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1045/index.md>) 'mountain with a vineyard on it'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · RU (ru) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *kerem* — kerem 'vineyard' (HALOT 498)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎗𐎎 *krm* — krm 'vineyard' (DULAT 451)
- Phoenician: 𐤊𐤓𐤌 *krm* — krm 'vineyard' (Krahmalkov 242)

## Attestations

- [HT 115b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115b/index.md>): KU-RU-MA I ¹⁄₂ — vineyard

## Commentary

HT 115b KU-RU-MA · I ½, in a list of small quantities (PA-RA-NE ½, DU-PA₃-NA 1, *306-TU-JA 1). kurma or gurma 'vineyard': Heb. kerem (HALOT 498), Ug. krm (DULAT 451); a place, or a name drawn from it, as KU-RA-MU Kurmu.

## Same root

- [KU-RA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RA-MU/index.md>) (Kurmu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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