PA-RO-SU

personal or clan name, 'Flea'

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Reading: Parʿōš
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ṗVrɣVṯ- ~ *ṗVrṯaɣ- ‘flea’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

HebrewParʿōš (פַּרְעֹשׁ), a clan, ‘the sons of Parʿōš’ (Ezra 2:3; HALOT 971); parʿōš ‘flea’ (1 Sam 24:15)
PhoenicianPRʿŠPRʿŠ ‘Flea’, a name element (Benz 1972, 395)
Ugariticprġt, a name (Benz 1972, 395)
Amoritepurʿušumpurʿušum ‘flea’; PURʿUŠ-AN-U, PU-UR-ḪU-ŠA-NU, Mari (Gelb 1980, no. 5184)

Attestations1 cited

HT 20PA-RO-SUpersonal or clan name, 'Flea' (heading)

Commentary

HT 20 (GORILA I 37): PA-RO-SU · heads six fraction entries (KU-MA-JU ¼, QE-KU-RE · DI ½, *21M ⅛, SA-RE-JU ⅛, WA ¼, *188+KU ½). The same scribe’s HT 16 has the same layout under KA-KU-PA ·, a party, so the heading names the recipient. Parʿōš ‘flea’, the clan of Ezra 2:3 (HALOT 971); RO writes rʿō with ʿ lost. Rival: parsu ‘portion, dry measure’ (Ug. prs, DULAT 671), which leaves RO unexplained. HT 104 .3–4 PA-DA-SU-TI 29 is a candidate for PA-RO-SU-TI, this name with -TI, in a list of X-TI entries (GORILA I 171; Schoep 2002, 47). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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