Compared forms
- Akkadianšarratušarratu ‘queen’
- Amoritešarra beside šarratum ‘queen’ (Gelb 1980, glossary); ʿAštar-šarra, EŠ₄-DAR-ŠAR-RA (no. 1693); Mari women’s names DN-šarra(t) ‘DN is the queen’ (Nakata 1995, 249); śartu ‘queen’, qallt, beside śarru ‘king’ (Buck 2019, 332)
- Hebrewśārāśārā ‘princess’ (Gen 17:15)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
SAMW a 1, a Samothrace nodule: JA-SA SA-RA TE 10 ¹⁄₁₆. šarra ‘queen’, the feminine of SA-RU šarru ‘king’, -a against -u: Amorite šarra beside šarratum ‘queen’ (Gelb 1980, glossary), ʿAštar-šarra (no. 1693); Heb. śārā ‘woman of rank, princess’ (HALOT 1354), the name Sarah (Gen 17:15). Philistine seren (Heb. sərānîm, HALOT 770; Ug. srn, DULAT 759) is Minoan šarrān, šarr with the afformative -ān, as KI-RE-TA-NA Kretan. The same word is written SA-RA₂ on 20 HT tablets. Rival: JA-SA-SA-RA as one word across a line break, as IO Za 12 writes JA-SA / SA-RA-ME and IO Za 16 JA-SA-SA-RA / ME. HT 62 .1 [·-·]-SA-RA is broken before (GORILA I 117), the end of a longer word, so it stays out of the attestations. See SA-RO.