# ZU-RI-NI-MA (Ṯūrinima)

> Bull- (personal name)

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

- Reading: Ṯūrinima
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṯawr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/269/index.md>) 'bull, ox'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ZU (zu) · RI (ri) · NI (ni) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎗 *ṯr* — ṯr "bull" (DULAT 916); ṯr (II), a name element (DULAT 917)
- Hebrew: שׁוֹר *šôr* — šôr (שׁוֹר) "ox, bull" (HALOT 1451)
- Arabic: ثَوْر *ṯawr* — ṯawr (ثَوْر) "bull"

## Attestations

- [KN Zb 52](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZb52/index.md>): ZU-RI-NI-MA

## Commentary

KN Zb 52, a clay vessel: ZU-RI-NI-MA alone. √ṯ-w-r 'bull' (PS *ṯawr-), ZU writing the ū of Ebla šu-ra /ṯūr/ (GlOS 2, 330) and Akk. šūru, with -īn and mimation -MA. Cf. I-ZU-RI-NI-TA (PH 6), with feminine -TA. One attestation.

## Same root

- [TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU/index.md>) (ṯawr)
- [I-ZU-RI-NI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-ZU-RI-NI-TA/index.md>) (ʾi-ṯawrīnīta)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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