# NA-MA (Naʿma)

> Naʿma 'Grace' (personal name)

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

- Reading: Naʿma
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nʕm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2611/index.md>) 'to be good'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: NA (na) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: na-ma, PN (ARET 15 25 r. ii 12); na-ma-da-mu naʿma-Damu 'grace of Damu' (Pagan 1998, row 3812); PNN na-a-ma, na-ma-(DN) (DULAT 605)
- Hebrew: Naʿămāh, PN (Gen 4:22; 1 Kgs 14:21, 31; 2 Chr 12:13); a town of Judah (Josh 15:41)
- Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎓𐎎 *nʿm* — nʿm 'grace, comeliness' (DULAT 605–606); Na'amanu, PN (Kinlaw 1967, 83)
- Amorite: NAʿM-AN-U, NA-AḪ-MA-NU (Gelb 1980, no. 4890); NAʿM-I, NA-AḪ-MI (no. 4893)

## Attestations

- [HT Zd 155](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZd155/index.md>): A-JU NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-\*319

## Commentary

HT Zd 155 A-JU · NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319 (GORILA IV 130–131): NA-MA stands before MA-TI-TI-A319 where WI-JA-SU stands on HT Zd 157, the name of the party to the gift. Naʿma, √n-ʿ-m 'grace', the ʿ unwritten as in TA-NA-MA-JE and DU-NE-MI. Ebla writes the same name na-ma (ARET 15 25 r. ii 12), short for names such as na-ma-da-mu naʿma-Damu 'grace of Damu' (Pagan 1998, row 3812); Hebrew has Naʿămāh (Gen 4:22; 1 Kgs 14:21). Weak point: the stucco is worn at the first MA, and GORILA's second transcription dots the second. Rival: nʿm 'good, of fine quality', as Ugaritic qn nʿm 'cane of good quality' (KTU 4.247:29; DULAT 605), but a Semitic attributive follows its noun, and NA-MA precedes MA-TI-TI. One attestation. Cf. TA-NA-MA-JE, DU-NE-MI.

## Same root

- [TA-NU-MU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-MU-TI/index.md>) (ta-nʿum-u-tī)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [TA-NA-MA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-MA-JE/index.md>) (Tanʿamay)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Pagan 1998; Kinlaw 1967; Gelb 1980
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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