# OLE+U (ʿuṣār)

> pressed oil (ʿuṣār)

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

- Reading: ʿuṣār
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʿVṣVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0685/index.md>) 'press'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE+U

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *ʿaṣara* — ʿaṣara 'he pressed it so as to force out its juice, honey, oil' (Lane 2061); ʿuṣārat, coll. ʿuṣār, 'expressed juice' (Lane 2062)
- Aramaic: *Syriac ʿṣar* — Syriac ʿṣar 'tread, press out; crush' (Payne Smith 423); JArm. maʿṣartā 'press' (Tg. Ps.-J. Num 18:27)

## Attestations

- [HT 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT2/index.md>): A-KA-RU OLE+U 20 — olive oil subtype U
- [HT 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT21/index.md>): OLE+U 11
- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): OLE+U 2
- [HT 42+59](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT42~2B59/index.md>): OLE+U\[ \]7 — U-grade oil (highest-frequency OLE compound, 22 att.; specific grade TBD). 7 + 2 + [qty lost] units
- [HT 44a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT44a/index.md>): OLE+U 5 — olive oil subtype U
- [HT 58](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT58/index.md>): OLE+U 19
- [HT 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT91/index.md>): OLE+U ≈ ¹⁄₆ — pressed oil (ʿuṣār)
- [HT 96b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96b/index.md>): OLE+U 4 — olive oil variant
- [HT 100](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT100/index.md>): OLE+U 2 ≈ ¹⁄₆ — olive oil subtype U
- [HT 101](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT101/index.md>): OLE+U 8
- [HT 125a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT125a/index.md>): OLE+U — pressed oil (ʿuṣār)
- [HT 140](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT140/index.md>): OLE+U 3
- [TY 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY3a/index.md>): OLE+U 22

## Commentary

OLE with the adjunct U, 22 tokens on 13 documents from Haghia Triada and Tylissos (TY 3a): a distinct oil subtype. ʿuṣār 'pressed (oil)', √ʿ-ṣ-r: Arb. ʿaṣara 'he pressed it so as to force out its juice, sirup, honey, oil' (Lane 2061), and ʿuṣārat, coll. ʿuṣār, 'expressed juice… of things having oil or sirup or honey' (Lane 2062), the u that U writes; Syr. ʿṣar 'tread, press out' (Payne Smith 423); JArm. maʿṣartā 'press' (Tg. Ps.-J. Num 18:27). The ʿ goes unwritten, as in E. Weak point: the noun ʿuṣār is Arabic.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane; Payne Smith
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- Payne Smith: Payne Smith, J. (Mrs. Margoliouth) (ed.) (1903), A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D.. Clarendon Press, Oxford

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.