# QA-RA₂-WA (qalwa)

> parched (roasted) grain; rival Ugaritic qrwn 'offering'

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

- Reading: qalwa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVlVw-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/798/index.md>) 'roast'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · RA₂ (ra₂) · WA (wa)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *qālî* — qālî 'roasted grain', eaten before the first-fruits offering, Lev 23:14 (HALOT 1102)
- Akkadian: *qalītu* — qalītu 'parched grain' (CAD Q 59); qalû 'roasted' (CAD Q 68)
- Arabic: *qalā* — qalā 'he fried wheat, roasted it in a pan' (Lane 2993)

## Attestations

- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): QA-RA₂-WA 10 — parched grain

## Commentary

HT 86a, intact: QA-RA₂-WA 10, where HT 95a/b write QE-RA₂-U (qelwu 'parched grain') in the same set (KU-NI-SU, SA-RU, DI-DE-RU, DA-ME, MI-NU-TE). With RA₂ = /la/, √q-l-w 'roast': Geʿez qalawa, Heb. qālî (Lev 23:14; Ruth 2:14), Aram. qəlā. Rival: Ugaritic qrwn 'offering' (DULAT 703; KTU 1.127:10–11), with RA₂ = /ra/ and final n unwritten. Cf. LB qa-ra₂-wo, a personal name (KN Ce 50; DMic II). One attestation.

## Same root

- [QE-RA₂-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-RA~E2~82~82-U/index.md>) (qelwu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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